Swinging in the Rain

This will be the briefest post ever.

1. Jon continues to wait for his immune system to start helping him out. So far it is not.  The antibiotics don't seem to be doing anything of note. He has moments when he feels like maybe he is getting better, but they are overtaken by coughing.

2. I went to get Mika for a late morning play date. We stopped in to see Jon (and Benjamin who was hanging out here doing work on his computer) and then went on to the playground where we had the entire place to ourselves. Apparently Israelis don't like to get wet. It wasn't raining, but things were wet. On the way home we stopped to watch a cement truck dumping into a pumper thing that pushed the cement all the way up to the top of a building through a hose. Pretty sure Mika didn't understand any of that but it was interesting anyway. 

 

 

3. Went out to lunch with Hedy. She took me on the scenic route down the side of the mountain so we could see out over the coastline, we went to a fancy Mediterranean restaurant right on the beach and had a whole buffet of salads brought to our table.  It was delicious and elegant. There were  windsurfers outside the window bouncing in the waves, wearing wet suits. It was nice to visit, just the two of us. It is very nice to have a girlfriend in Haifa. We did not only talk about our children and our grandchild, we talked about the issue that has been at the top of my mind for the last six months or so -- what's the plan? As is true of almost all of us, there is no clarity yet.

 

4. In the evening, I went over to babysit so B&Y could have a grown-up date. When her parents left, she said goodbye nicely, not feeling the need to make a dramatic farewell. Mika and I buzzed through the nighttime routine without any issues at all (except that she did not like liver, even though she tried it nobly, three times).  She charms me to the core. What will it be like when she can really talk?  So much fun. Right now it is a lot of agreeing or disagreeing with things that people ask her. But she is so ready to work with the people who are trying to convince her to do anything.

 

Maybe not liver but definitely sweet potatoes.

 

I understand that this is about as domestic and uninteresting as it gets, for a travel blog.  Nothing to be done about it.