Tuesday, 11 October 2016 (Erev Yom Kippur)

I got up rather late this morning but still went out for a fairly long walk. I took a few pictures, including today's pic of the day, the early morning sun behind a palm tree just up the street from where I live:

The WIZO House was closed today, of course, but Fay graciously invited us to her house, where we met at 11:00. I think all of us who showed up really enjoyed and appreciated the conversation. I walked down there and about half way back home, taking the bus the rest of the way.

In the late afternoon, just before the start of Yom Kippur, I prepared quite a large meal for myself: a salad (with added tomato, bell pepper, seeds, and nuts), a vegetarian shnitzel, beans and vegetarian weenies, and cottage cheese. I decided just this afternoon to fast for Yom Kippur, so we'll see how that works out.

Right at the start of Yom Kippur, I went out for another fairly long walk (though slightly shorter than this morning's). It was really fun, because there were hundreds of kids (and even adults) out with their bicycles. For the whole 25 hours of Yom Kippur, there are only a VERY few cars out on the roads (mostly for emergencies), and so the kids can ride their bicycle, skateboard, roller blades, and assorted other vehicles freely in the streets and play on the kikars (the roundabouts). I walked almost the whole time right out in the street and took lots of pictures. Here are a couple of representative ones:

I walked a total of 11.2 kilometers today.