Thanksgiving was great! We spent it with Jen and Ben, our great friends in Tel Aviv, who had a party of 16 people that night and we left - or at least started to leave - around 2:30. The traffic was horrible! Apparently everyone leaves Jerusalem on Thursdays before their weekend which starts essentially on Friday mid-day and it took an hour just to get out the city. When we finally got there, Julia turned on her charm with all the guests and took care of herself for most of the night. When we sat down to eat, she sat at a different table next to Matt the Marine who helped her with her dinner, etc. Thomas did a good job at trying to break everything possible at his level and tried multiple times to stick his entire hand in the cheese dip on the coffee table. Brian took on the job of following him around and keeping him out of trouble which made my night great but his night until Thomas fell asleep not very relaxing. Our dinner was a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey, cranberries, pecan pie, etc. It was fabulous and I ate too much as usual and was stuffed. We were invited to a second Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday night and this time got a babysitter. Again we stuffed ourselves to the brim and had a great relaxing time.
Brian's birthday was the next weekend. On Saturday, we jumped in the car and drove up to Hula Valley. Hula Lake Park is a stopover for migrating birds going from Europe to Africa and back. They come twice a year and blanket the area. Jen and Ben joined us there and then had an early birthday dinner celebration at a restaurant in the area. Here are awesome pictures that Jen took that day.
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