My last post was early Friday morning, so I'll try to pick up from there. After breakfast, we decided to take a drive to the Golan, in particular to Har Bental. We've been there many times before, but it's always a nice place to go for a great view. In fact, it's one of the best places in Israel from which to look a little into Syria. The nearest Syrian city is Kuneitra, and it's possible to see the general layout of the city and even distinguish where some of the larger buildings are. Although much of Syria has been destroyed by the civil war there (from the reports we've all seen), I didn't detect any damage in Kuneitra. Of course, I was only looking with my naked eyes -- with binoculars I might very well have seen much more.
In the evening, I helped to lead the Kabbalat Shabbat prayers at Emet V'Shalom, and afterwards we were part of a very nice dinner at the Loberants' house which included another family that we know and a new family who just made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) from New Jersey about a week ago! It was a very enjoyable evening with delicious food and great company.
Because we got to bed about 2 hours later than our usual bedtime, we got up quite late Shabbat morning. In fact, by the time we really got going it was nearly lunch time, so we decided to drive to Karmiel and have lunch at Art de Coco, a nice restaurant there that we know and love. I had spinach lasagna, and David had their "hot salad". We also each had one of their scrumptious desserts!
This morning, we got up early, got packed, and were on our way shortly after 6:30. We ate breakfast at the Aroma at Rambam Medical Center before going to David's appointment there. After his appointment, we immediately started our trip home and got back here just after 3:30 p.m.
In the evening, we went over to Ice Park for frozen yogurt. After that I did the unpacking.
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