Text 33495, 127 rader
Skriven 2010-01-13 14:55:38 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 33431 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: Israel trip
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Hi Hap,

 hn> Hey Ruth!
 hn> Welcome back to CONUS!

Thanks; I'm mostly re=adjusted time wise.  Every so often tho I'll feel
like dropping everything and taking a nap (but usually don't).  Most of
that is from the busy-ness of catching up from being gone for 10 days
and travel over 7 time zones twice in that time.  We were on the go
quite a bit so my body is trying to slow down now to compensate.  It's
not a trrip for people with major mobility issues or are not in shape
for a lot of walking.  As I finished packing, I tossed in a pairof
older, well used walking shoes.  I ended up wearing them just about
every day because they were best suited for the terrain we covered.

->  hn> but Reyes sydrome would scare me a lot more!

-> It was bronchiolisis or something like that.  Rachel had a picture on
-> her Facebook page that Steve wanted me to see so I read her postings for
-> that week.  Sarah is home but having a couple of breathing treatments
-> each day stll.  After she's all healed up, she will be checked for
-> underlying conditions that could have contributed to the severity of her
-> RSV.

 hn> At least she's gotten better and now they
 hn> can move on to doing the checking and
 hn> find out what they can do to help her!


Yes, tho school has started again and she's probably back in day care.
Hopefully she won't pick up any more bugs from the other kids until all
the testing she needs is done.

->  hn> In any case it's good to know she's getting better!
->  hn> We'll be hoping an praying for her quick recovery!

-> Thanks; all the prayers have helped. We had a Skype chat last night with
-> the web cam on.  Got to see our pretty little girl and handsome young
-> man as well as their mom.

 hn> I'm sure everyone enjoyed that!!

Sarah was a bit wiggly--which is good, actually.  She did wave and
played a bit o peek a boo.  OTOH, keeping her brother from being a big
ham was more of a challenge for Rachel.  It's nice that we can do the
video chats; it helps Robert (and eventually Sarah) to remember that we
are more than just voices on the phone that visit every so often.


->  hn> And for you and Steve to have a great trip
->  hn> to Israel!!
 hn> ->
-> It was really good.  Meals were mostly buffets, some at kibbutzem where
-> it was more cafeteria style.  Since any drinks other than water were
-> costly at lunch & supper, we stayed with the water for the most part.  I
-> had a Coke once and we split a soft drink made in Dubai another time.

 hn> I generally prefer water, I like water so
 hn> that's no problem for me...I'm trying to

We've had water in some places that was just about undrinkable straaight
from the tap.  In Berlin, it had a heavy sulpher content.  Don't know
what it was in Savannah but Steve had problems drinking the tap water.
We bought a distiller in Germany and used it until it died in AZ.  After
that we just drank the water "as is" until we moved to GA.  We got a
faucet filter then, got another type but same idea a few months after
moving here.

 hn> remember the last time I had a soft drink...
 hn> I'm guessing it would have been in a mixed
 hn> drink but I'm not sure if I had a single soft
 hn> drink in 2009...I'm sure I haven't had one
 hn> in 2010 so far (grin)!

I took home (from Life Group) about 12 oz of Diet Coke, all that was
left in a 2 liter bottle, on Sunday and finished it Monday.  It would
not have lasted until our meeting next Sunday.  I average maybe once a
week but there are weeks I don't have any, weeks I'll have 2 or 3 soft
drinks.

-> One kibbutz meal was where they had a restaurant where the specialty
 hn> was
-> St. Peter's fish, aka tilapia, raised on the kibbutz.  That was more of
-> a family style serving for the soup and salad, then they brought out a
-> plate for each person with a gutted out fried fish on it.  Most still
-> had the head & tail.  Some of our group were a bit bothered by it,
-> especially the high school age daughter of one of the tour leaders.  I
-> think she did eat a bit of it, after her mom deboned it.  That was the

 hn> Gosh, I know we have become a
 hn> squeamish bunch...but just because a
 hn> fish is fried with the head attached? My goodness!
 hn> Of course Annie would have starved at that
 hn> restaurant (grin)....

It surprised me at first but I had no problems dealing with it.  I guess
some folks just were either not that much into fish or into fish with
the head & fins still on.  Given a choice, I'd rather have flounder than
tilapia but at least we knew this wasn't Asian raised tilapia.

We like hummus quite a
 hn> bit and have it in the house almost all the time.
 hn> I use it on Anne's wraps for her school lunches
 hn> in place of mayo or mustard...works great!
 hn> It's easy to make...and I have a place where
 hn> I can get dried garbanzo's so I may even try
 hn> to make it that way as well.

We've had it from time to time but never really gotten into having it on
hand on a regular basis.  That will change now; I'm going to put some
dried beans on to sak tonight so we can make a batch tomorrow.  It's
going to be a staple for us.

 hn> Glad to have you back in the fold!

Thanks; you wll be reading bits and pieces about our trip for a while
now.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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