Hi. It's been a few days since I posted anything. So what have we been up to? Brian and I went out last Thursday to a wine tasting at the Israeli Museum. It is beautiful! It was an outdoor wine tasting with nice music and we had great company. We didn't get a chance to explore the museum but we tasted a few Israeli wines and then left for a quick bite to eat. The "quick bite to eat" turned into quite a meal. We went to the center of Jerusalem and decided to try Katy's. It is a non-Kosher restaurant that a coworker of Brian's had raved about. The woman who owns it has been here for 40 some years and is from Morocco. She sat down with us and told us her story while we drank more wine and then she offered us Cognac and dessert, etc. It was all great food but it became more than a "quick bite". Next time anyone wants to visit and have a nice meal out, we'll try Katy's again.
On Saturday, Brian and I went up to Tel Aviv to visit a friend who is in Israel for the summer. We grilled out at his place which overlooks the Mediterranean. He lives in Yaffo and weather was quite warmer and much more humid than Jerusalem obviously. It was another great night of food and company. We talked a lot about the politics and tense situation in Israel but I have to admit that besides these conversations, I don't feel the effects of the events in southern Israel and Gaza.
On a totally different subject, we have been dealing with, as some of you know, some intermittent middle of the night vomiting with Julia. It started almost 2 weeks ago and we have seen two doctors including a pediatric gastroenterologist. No one knows why she is vomiting at 3am every other night but the latest diagnosis from the peds gastro doc was "behaviorial". He thinks it is from the stress of the move. After visiting 2 docs on Monday, Julia said that her "sick was all gone". So far we are now 72+ hours without vomiting which is a record. I hope Julia is right because I was getting sick myself of baths and changing sheets every other night at 3am. If we didn't tell any of you it was because we didn't want you to worry. Don't be mad. It seems to be all over and I am more than relieved. I don't care we really don't know why it happened.
We heard about the earthquake yesterday and I hope none of you were effected much. Keep in touch and let us know when you'd like to come visit!!
OMG!!! Carolyn it was so scary. I was working in area 3 with Bowles-Johnson waiting for her afternoon clinic to start. She had a 2pm start i was talking on the phone with Rachel my roommate. All of a sudden i started to hear a loud noise and feeling that the ground was shaking. I immediately hung up from Rachel and turned to Pam and Jeannie and asked them did the feel that? They both looked at me like i was crazy and no that they didn't feel anything. I then turned and rushed to the waiting area where everyone was running to the door and evacuating. It was one the the most scary 5 mins of my life.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed outside for about 45 mins but then they made all of us come back in to finish out the rest of our patients of course.
ReplyDeleteoh, poor Julia! Is the sick all gone? I hope so! For mommy's sake too!
ReplyDeleteGlad you all are safe.