It was my birthday, so I decided to take the day off and go with Suzanne to the old section of Jaffa Everyone who is anyone has spent some time there

including Andromeda who still lives in the harbor and still more people and legends including also Napoleon who was nice enough to pose with Suzanne and a curse. Maybe they came for the wonderful view of Tel Aviv or to see the Turkish clock tower or to go to the bakery where people line up 5 deep to get take away pastries and lunch. Let's hope that they don't go there for the Flea Market which isn't very good.

Later, we went out for a family dinner to celebrate my birthday. Everyone looked good You can hardly tell that Benjamin's clothes were all wet because I managed to spill lemonade all over him. Benjamin insisted that we tell the waiter that it was my birthday. He was kind enough to put sparklers on our desserts and to take a group photo.

And now I am a year (or is it 4 years?) older.