Yesterday, Thursday, Lois went to meet her friend in Yerushalayim.  Robin drove her in and Eric picked her up later on in the day.  She said that it was great seeing her friend and she had a really nice day.  Meanwhile, the kids had school and we had errands to do. 

In the afternoon I took Ben and Keren to the playground here while Talia went to her survival chug.  We stayed there for about 2 hours.  The park kept filling up with more and more friends for Ben (and for me too) so we wound up staying there pretty late.  Eric had picked his mother up and brought her home and she baked challot with Talia and then Talia went to her friend’s house for their bayit cham (it’s kind of like a round robin play date kind of thing with a set number of girls in each group).  Ben had his turn to bake with bubby before dinner.

In the evening, after the kids went to sleep Lois and I went out to a cafe in Modiin and had hot chocolate (her) and soup (me).

Today we had the big Adloyadah.  That is what they call a big purim parade.  It was rained out last Friday so they just pushed it to this Friday!!  The kids were all dressed up in different costumes based on what their class decided.  Ben was one of the avot and Talia was a cat.  We had to make her an animal from Noah’s Ark and that was the best we could come up with.  The parade started in front of our house (!!) and continued to Talia’s school.  It was adorable!  It was very large.  They had all the shuls and they had floats and even a horse.  It was adorable.  I took video but I probably won’t post it b/c it’s too big of  a file.  We’ll see.  I felt bad for all the kids b/c of course it was 80 degrees out today and the kids were all in costume and they were all hot and sweaty.  They made them stop for water breaks every so often. 

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So now everyone is out.  Lois brought something for someone whose mother lives in Modiin.  So the kids all went with Eric and Lois to Modiin to drop it off and then they are going to go to the candy store b/c Lois promised them candy (because we don’t already have enough from the shalach manot).

Shabbat Shalom!!