We woke up very early today (430 AM our time) to get to our flight from Cairo to Luxor.
Once we got here, we went for a walk around town where we discovered both
old
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and new
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styles of writing. We apologize here gentle viewer, for the large
number of hieroglyphics you will see on these pages. There is no
apology for the road signs of Egypt.
This being Egypt, we saw a lot of people practicing perfect posture
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Next we stopped at a shop where the proprietor gave us a warm welcome
because he (and every other shop keeper in the country) loves Americans
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He even offered to give me 10,000 camels for my wife.
Then there were the obligatory phone booth pictures
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While in the market
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we noticed this obelisk
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in one direction
and this McDonald's
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in the other -- signs of the way things are here.
We also met Mohammed (and his friend)
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and promised that if
we took a horse and carriage ride, we would hire him.
In the afternoon, we went to the temples at Luxor.
We started with
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the Karnak Temple
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which is guarded by a row of sphinxes
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which were modified by Ramses 2 to show his head.
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This was the scene as we entered the temple
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and saw our first hieroglyphics
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and the ramps that supported the adding of layers to the walls
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Next we saw the statues of Ramses
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guarding the entry
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and with his favorite wife Nefertari
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below.
Then more hieroglyphics
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after which we went to see the 162 columns that held
up the temple.
Of course many of these had hieroglyphics on them
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gentle viewer -- we apologize for having taken quite so many photos
but the scenery was unbelievable and everyone had to take their favorite few
photos. Even these photos, of which we are quite proud, do not capture the grandeur
of the place as we saw it
From here, we saw the obelisks
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one of which was on its side
and the famous beetle (walk around 7 times and your wish comes
true)
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but we couldn't escape more pictures of hieroglyphics
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until we took a picture of Suzanne
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taking this picture
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Then it was time to go to the temple of Luxor
where we were again greeted by Ramses 2
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sometimes with obelisks, sometimes with the dreaded hieroglyphics and
sometimes with just his head on.
From here, we entered and saw the mosque that had been built on the site
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then more Ramses
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more hieroglyphics
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and then a statue of King Tut and his bride
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then more statues
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more columns
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and a painting from the Christian times
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followed (of course) by more hieroglyphics
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one of which depicts Alexander the Great's attempts
to get his wife fertile with offers to the Egyptian gods.
We ended by having Jane do a montage of photos showing our path out.
As you'd expect there are columns and statues and hieroglyphics.
She also captured lots of pieces of the temple waiting to be classified
and assembled -- the world's largest jigsaw puzzle
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cat > AllDates/04.23.00.1.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Luxor -- the East Shore
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
Our day began when this gentleman
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knocked at our door at 6AM so that we could get
to breakfast and be ready to leave at 7AM for sightseeing.
We began by going to see the statues
guarding the burial temple of Amen-Oifs III -- the
co-called colossi of Memnon
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which were quite impressive.
Next we went to the Kingdom of the Gods.
Getting there was quite a challenge. When your bus
stops you have to deal with peddlers
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next you go through the snack bar
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and take a tram
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to reach the ticket booth
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after which you walk through the street vendors
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to get to the path to the tombs.
Then you are in this remarkable setting
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where you can walk up a long path
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and stop at tombs
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which may be entered
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but there is no photography inside.
But, be careful as you leave
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and watch out for the guards
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Next we stopped at an alabaster factory
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where they did a demonstration of the
process
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and showed someone pounding the material
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and another person sawing
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All of this was to hustle our money and give a commission
to the tour guide.
Our next stop was at the Temple of Hatshephust, one
of the queens.
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We saw the monumental tree stump
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and then her statues
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and some beautiful hieroglyphics
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after which we were told that her
statue (meant to look like Ramses II)
had some feminine features ( you be the judge )
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We also took a picture of the view she gets
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and the soon to be obligatory photo of Suzanne taking a photo
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On the way out, we saw construction workers preparing to add to the temple
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Our final stop was at the Valley of the Queens
where Jane did her Nefertari imitation
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we waited to go into a tomb
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and took an obligatory phone booth picture
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cat > AllDates/04.24.00.2.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
The Temple at Esna
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
We were stuck at the Esna dam which was closed
for maintenance from 9 to 1, so they arranged
alternative transportation for us to
get to the temple
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( they let me drive the carriage back so it was quite an adventure ).
When we arrived, there was the usual trip through the souk
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The temple is very impressive
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for its walls
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which are covered with hieroglyphics that were Greek imitations of
the Egyptian originals. The Greeks led by Alexander the Great conquered
Egypt by imitating their religion in ways like this.
Also impressive were the columns which showed the Greco-Roman style
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and the ceiling which among other things showed the signs of the
Zodiac
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A minaret in the background
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provides a wonderful contrast to the temple.
While at the temple, we took the almost obligatory picture
of Suzanne taking a picture of the rest of us
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had Napoleon, our tour guide, take a picture of all of us
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but we forgot to tell him that the camera doesn't advance film and so got 3
and took a picture of Napoleon with the children.
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/04.25.00.1.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
The Temple at Edfu
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
This was an unusual temple because it is on the
West Bank which is usually reserved for tombs (sunset) with
the East Bank used for temples.
It was buried in sand for thousands of years and so
is very well preserved.
The boat had arrived at the dock during the night and
we headed out early in the morning past the picture of Mubarak
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took the obligatory phone booth pictures
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and reached the bazaar
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outside the temple.
The outside walls were impressive
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both for their architecture and for their engravings
which were mostly not hieroglyphics.
They were guarded by these friendly statues
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and to the side you could see further ruins still
being developed
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They were
set against the neighboring houses
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and well guarded
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Next we entered the temple which has
high standards
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and saw the usual collection of hieroglyphics
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columns
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which come in varied styles
engravings
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and ceiling
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images.
These were impressive because it is a later temple (Ptolemaic period
built by the father of Cleopatra VII the Cleopatra).
We also saw the throne of the gods
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the boat that Horus' wife took to come visit
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Our time was up, so we got ready to go
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and made our way back through the bazaar
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/04.25.00.2.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
The Temple at Kom
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
This was a quite remarkable temple. We docked the ship and
could see the temple from the side of the boat. We had the usual walk there
past the phone booth
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past the cobra trainer
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and through the bazaar
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until we reached the entrance
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and saw the temple
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Our first stop was at the crocodile mummies
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Once we got to the temple, we were impressed at how well it had been
preserved by being buried under water for so long.
Once inside the temple, there were the usual collection of columns,
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ceiling,
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hieroglyphics,
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and engravings
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This temple was particularly interesting because it was built in the Greek/Roman period
and many of the images above tell stories relating to Cleopatra VII, the daughter of
Ptolemey III. She is the Cleopatra of history. Our guide did a wonderful
job of relating the engravings to the cartouches that tell the stories.
We also saw engravings here, as in other places, documenting the merger of upper and
lower Egypts and the gods who were involved in the merger and in protecting it.
Our guide also showed us 2 other things of note.
This
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is an indentation used to join stones. When temples have
been dismantled in order to be moved, they have found pieces of wood and bronze
in these indentations.
And, this
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was the chamber of holies where the priests went to imitate the gods
when greeting the king.
Our last stop at the site was at an old Roman statue
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that had been built at the site in a later period.
On the way back we took a few pictures from different angles
of the temple at sunset
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We were a few minutes late getting back to the ship
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so our neighbors pulled up their plank and sailed away
leaving a small gap
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to be bridged. Eventually the Helios got its bridge up
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and we could proceed
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Unfortunately the whole operation took about half an hour and
so we got to Aswan that much later.
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Some highlights of Aswan
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
We had only 4 hours in which to see all of Aswan before having
to head to the airport to catch a flight back to Cairo so we
focused on 3 activities.
We started with the Temple of Philae.
This temple is most interesting because it was moved from Philae Island
to a new location after the construction of the first Aswan dam
had submerged the island (and so the temple) for at least half of each year.
When you see the size of the temple, it's remarkable that it could have
been moved.
To get to it, we took a motorboat to the island it is on.
On the way, we recorded everyone's looks
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including those of our boat driver
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where we had come from
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and where we were going
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We also enlisted Benjamin as our tour guide at one point.
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Once on the island, we saw the temple in its granduer
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including an engraving that had been chiseled out
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The columns were once again of varied styles
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including this one where the ankh and arrow were explained
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The engravings were impressive once again
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and our guide worked our way through a few more hieroglyphics
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and we took a ceiling picture
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We also saw the largest blocks to be moved
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The ride back gave us a chance for a last view of the temple
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and the old Aswan Dam
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Back on the shore we took the obligatory picture of the
phone booth that had been taken over by the spice salesman
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Next it was on to the new Aswan Dam where we took a picture of the
river flowing north
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and a lot of pictures of people in our group from various angles
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Our final stop was a fellucca
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ride on the Nile
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Our pictures are divided among scenes of the shore
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(black lines mark where the level was before the Dam)
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(notice engravings on rocks)
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(Cataract Hotel where they filmed Murder on the Nile)
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(temple at the Nubian Museum)
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(Aga Kahn's mansion)
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(side of the boat)
and the collection
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which are designed to give a sense of the experience.
We also took a lot of people photos
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including some in profile
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some misaimed
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/04.27.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Back in Cairo
Family
TravelEgypt
Sabbatical
For our last day in Cairo, we went to the Egyptian Museum which was beautiful
but camera avers and then to Saqqara (aka Sakara) which has some of the oldest
tombs and the step pyramids.
These were pictures on the wall inside one of the graves
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The color is quite well preserved after almost 5000 years.
They also have phone booths
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though I think these are probably a recent addition.
The step pyramid is quite a site
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and made hills like this one
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take on a new meaning.
Walking along the paths in the old city of the dead
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was quite an experience because the crowds were small compared
to the area of the city. Of course, it was quite hot.
This guard
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asked me to take his picture and then demanded baksheesh.
those of you viewing this should contribute to the
pound I had to pay him .
In the distance, across desert you could see the pyramids at Giza
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We took a picture of one of the burial pits
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but it was hard to see down 100 feet to the bottom.
Then, the outside of the tombs
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and the wall of cobras
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left us ready to drive to Memphis which we could see from a distance
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In Memphis, the main attraction is the gigantic status of Ramses II.
Here are his head,
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his belt cartouche,
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his chest engraving,
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his good arm,
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(notice the strong muscle)
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his shoulder,
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his bad leg,
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his ear
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the engraving of his wife in his leg
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and his entire length
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We took this picture towards Saqqara
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and this in the outer yard
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and these of the alabaster pyramid
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Our last stop in Egypt was at Khan al Khalili, the bazaar (souk)
where these gentlemen
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sold us some elegant T shirts and offered not enough camels for
my wife or children.
This man seemed to characterize our final warm feeling
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as Suzanne left her last shopping excursion
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and this guy said goodbye
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At the airport, we took the obligatory phone booth pictures
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where we were accused to taking pictures for phone
and even one of a mail box
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.02.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
A quiet week at home
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
We had been traveling for a while and it
was time to settle back into our normal lives here.
Suzanne and Benjamin made a trip to Tel Aviv to
get Benjamin a violin rental.
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Jane's flute came
back from the repairman and they could make music together
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.04.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
A quiet week at home
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
Later in the week (on Thursday), Seth Teller
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came to visit.
Sarah
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and Jane
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got haircuts.
The rest of us
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tagged along for an excellent dinner
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During the meal, Jane decided to experiment with her
attempts at taking self portraits that realize the
Blair Witch Project
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.07.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
A trip to New Jerusalem -- Yad Va'shem, Lunch and Ben Yehuda Street
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
We went to see Yad Va'shem.
It is a very somber place but we paused to take a picture of
Benjamin
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together with his sisters
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and then took pictures of Sarah and Jane enjoying the view
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Afterwards, we drove downtown and had lunch but not at this place
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Jane took the family pictures
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but Suzanne sneezed
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Jane's self portraits are improving
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but they are still not as good as pictures of her and Sarah together
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The food was good as you can see from 11 of the 12 salads
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No one wanted to see the beets anyways.
After lunch, we took the obligatory phone booth pictures
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and the pictures of great American icons overseas
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We even went to Hillel 5 to taste the last one.
Finally, on the way to the car, Sarah took a picture of this
flower
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and David took a picture of this house
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where the person who gave his name to many streets here once spent time.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.10.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Independence Day and Benjamin's Class Show
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
FamilyCohen
This was the week of Israeli Independence Day. We went to the
kibbutz (Ein Ha Horesh) to celebrate with Ofer and Haviva.
This was 52 years for Israel
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nd 70 years for the kibbutz
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thanks to the sign that Ofer made.
Haviva also made a beautiful sign
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celebrating the history of Israel n pictures.
Yuval and Benjamin
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had a wonderful time running around the picnic.
Before leaving, we got to see the cows being milked
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.11.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Independence Day and Benjamin's Class Show
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
SchoolBen
Benjamin's class had been practicing for weeks so we
expected a great show. He even got a haircut and put on
his AIS millenium shirt
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got to his class
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and lined up with the other kids
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The show was a grand spectacle
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Unfortunately, it was so grand that you can't see Benjamin (star of the show)
in any of the pictures.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.14.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
May 14-20 a Week in our lives
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
It was a fairly standard week.
We began by going to Tel Aviv and buying a falafel from this man
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which kept me awake during the night but cleaned my internal plumbing.
Next we went to this street market
../../../Sabbat/Pics/05.14.00-05.20.00WeekinOurLives//P5140002
and bought a Pokemon shirt (b'Evrit) for Benjamin. Stay tuned and we'll
have him model it in a later edition of this journal.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.18.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
May 14-20 a Week in our lives
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
On Thursday, we were invited
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to the ambassador's house. So David dug out his tie
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and he and Suzanne dressed to the nines
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for this once in a lifetime event.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.20.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
May 14-20 a Week in our lives
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
This would surely have been the high point of our week except that
we went channel surfing on Saturday night and found a Russian
version of So you want to be a Millionaire .
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We had forgotten our previous experiments
!!! web page link here
and so spent some time doing television photography with the flash
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Eventually we got in gear and were able to record
question
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followed by question with no leaf blocking the screen
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followed by question with correct answer
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followed by next question
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The answer to this question was wrong
sending the contestant home with 32,000 rubles
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and necessitating a new question
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to which 10 contestants came up with an answer
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After a Saturday night spent watching a quiz show in a language you
don't understand, there may be no encore we can find.
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Who wants to be a millionaire
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
Like all of the world, we are junkies for the latest fads.
In Israel, we could only dream about being able to see the
television shows that have made America great.
Then, one day, we happened upon an old favorite.
In Russian
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We had forgotten our
previous experiments
and so spent some time doing television photography with the flash
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Eventually we got in gear and were able to record question
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followed by question with no leaf blocking the screen
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followed by question with correct answer
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followed by next question
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The answer to this question was wrong
sending the contestant home with 32,000 rubles
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and necessitating a new question
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to which 10 contestants came up with an answer
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.25.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Who wants to be a millionaire
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
After a Saturday night spent watching a quiz show in a language you
don't understand, there may be no encore we can find.
B'Evrit
Continuing our theme of recording off the television, we
were lucky enough to find the show on Israeli channel 2,
One question was answered
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another was asked
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and answered for 2000 shekels
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After a commercial
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the stakes went up to 4000 shekels
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Another question asked
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and answered
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and we were at 8000 shekels
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Another question
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with answer
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followed by excitement
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and the show's logo
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The next question
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had him polling the audience
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and getting ready
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to go for 32,000 shekels
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Here he failed
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a question had to be asked of a group of contestants
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and we had our new player
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/07.21.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Who wants to be a millionaire
Family
TravelSpain
Sabbatical
en Espanol
We were in the hotel in Sanitiago de Compostela and there it was
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Sarah was able to translate, so we could all participate
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.26.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Back to Jerusalem
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
Our time here is running out and so we decided to pay one
last visit to Jerusalem.
On Friday night we drove to Jerusalem and went to see the
people at the Western Wall welcome the Shabbat. Of course, we could
not take pictures because Shabbat was coming in. But none of us will
forget the excitement of the occasion as we watch the orthodox sing and dance
and welcome the Sabbath Queen.
We then went to the Armenian Tavern for our own dinner.
Suzanne and Benjamin
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ere a little tired as they waited for the food
but Benjamin perked up once he got a drink.
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and Suzanne let us experiment with her picture without
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and with
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flash.
David's beard
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so impressed Jane that she decided to make a bread beard
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This didn't make it any easier for Sarah to keep her eyes opened
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.27.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Back to Jerusalem
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
All of this activity made everyone happy to sleep
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or read
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into the next morning.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/05.28.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Back to Jerusalem
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
On Sunday, we did an exploration of the new city
starting at the pay phones near Ben Yehuda Street
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It was a day of eating
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starting with bagels
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not to mention the special Lag B'Omer offer.
Next we bought shoes for the girls from this kind man
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took a picture of this bus
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that got in the way of our picture of the Glat Kosher Sbarro's
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Next we were off to the produce market
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after which we stopped because Jane and Benjamin were intrigued by
this man playing the old shell game.
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Sarah bought sandals at this store
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we passed a kosher KFC
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and David finally found a gift shop sign he could like
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Fortunately, MacDonald's has relaxed their
policy
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so we could use their sherutim.
We decided to skip the Masters of Bizarre
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and on our way home, we stopped for ice cream
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and a family picture
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In the evening, we decided to pay one last visit to the
Western Wall
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on the way to dinner.
When we got there, we saw a cameraman
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and some men with rifles
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Jane recorded the days purchases
Sarah's shoes
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Jane's shoes and pants
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and Suzanne's bracelet
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Then David and Benjamin headed to the wall
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inserted the note
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and headed back
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then along the path
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and onto the plaza.
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We took our last pictures on the plaza
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and then headed to the Cardo for dinner
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They dressed us
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for a Roman feast
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Then the juggler performed
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He threatened to chop a carrot on Sarah's head
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Next, the doctor offered to cure us
with red pepper ear rings
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for Jane
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and a lettuce hat for Suzanne
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We posed for one final picture as Caesar's
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and then headed home for the night.
On the way out of town, we stopped at the Israel Museum and
the Shrine of the Book
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where a sandwich stand had the right message
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and we took the obligatory phone booth picture
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/06.03.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
Jane's picture experiments
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
We don't have a scanner here.
Jane needed some pictures of her Princeton friends for her
Spanish project.
So, she decided to experiment with ways of getting good
enough pictures using the digital camera essentially as a scanner.
Those of you who think this was a silly idea are referred to
where David and Sarah were able to use
the results of previous research about photography off
the television set.
The first pictures washed out
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even when she caught corners of the carpet
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with these
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being about the best she got
except for the distortions
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which we found amusing but very bad.
There were also some weird background pictures
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even when blurred or taken with rug backgrounds
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At this point, Sarah appeared
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and a few pictures came out better
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or maybe we just became more tolerant of the complexity of the
task at hand.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/06.04.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
A day in Sefad
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
FriendsChurgin
Mike Churgin
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came for a visit. We had wanted to go to Sefad for a while. He
agreed, so we headed off.
Our first stop was for lunch where
we were welcomed warmly
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and everyone
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was in a good mood
except for the poor lamb
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and Suzanne's
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which looked all right
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but a little lethargic.
David's mousaka
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came through in fine shape.
Once we took a picture of the waitress
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the rest of the staff
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asked to also be enshrined in our archives.
With a good lunch in our systems, we walked down the steep steps
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past the broken house
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and down the narrow alley
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to the tallit makers shop
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We took the obligatory phone booth picture
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and went looking for the Messiah
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always being careful not to pollute
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We saw the ads for Shavuoth
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but probably won't have the peyot
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of these kids or the prayer vest
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of this man.
And, we will certainly miss M. D. Weinstock
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We had a new car for the day
as Jane documented on the way home
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//GO.SYSIN DD *
cat > AllDates/06.07.00.0.TXT <<'//GO.SYSIN DD *'
A week at AIS
Family
TravelIsrael
Sabbatical
SchoolJane
The school year is winding down, so
e are celebrating by a number of school
activities.
First, David recorded the school slogan