Driving Lessons

So today we took our driving lessons so that we can take our driving tests on Thursday.  Let me just predict in advance, there is NO WAY I am going to pass this test on Thursday.  Eric said I better pass it because it is 300 shekels every time you have to retake it.  That is only for the test.  My lesson today was 120 shekels.  I think it is costing us somewhere in the vicinity of 800 Shekels total.  The guys was telling me what to do in Hebrew and he was explaining things in Hebrew and I was trying to listen, translate and drive at the same time!  Luckily I didn’t get into any accidents and I am pretty sure I understood what he was saying.  Of course, the girl that went before me was in the back yapping away on her phone the whole time until we dropped her off and that didn’t help things!  There are all these rules about the traffic circles and about yielding and stopping at a stop sign and all these things that you do automatically but not perfectly after driving for such a long time.  He told me to drive a little bit like a cowboy.  I am screwed.  Eric is going to take me out tomorrow to practice!!  I didn’t love the car that I am taking the test in either, so that’s hard. 

We also went to look for a car today, again.  We took the Mazda 5 for a drive and I think that’s the car we are going to go with. It’s a really really small minivan.  It seats about 7 people but there is no trunk. The test today was if I could get the stroller in the trunk and be able to close the trunk.  Well, I can!!  I can have 5 kids in the car and still have a stroller in the back.  The packages would have to be in the front seat but that assumes I have 5 kids in the car and a stroller and packages.  For the most park I think I’ll have the 3 kids and packages and a stroller or just the kids and no packages…  So that’s what we think we are going to go with.  Now for the hard part, deciding where to buy from and getting Eric to make a decision!! 

My grandparents came over today to watch the kids while I took my driving lesson and my grandmother brought some of her yummy vegetable soup for me.  The kids had a nice time with them.  It was nice that my grandfather came.  Ben is always so excited to see him and he played or interacted with them a ton and it was nice to see.

Not much else to tell.  I made sure to upload the pictures that I took of the kids last night when we were in Petach Tikvah this morning so now I can put them into this blog.  Check out how cute they are:

This is the funky circle thing that went round and round when you pushed it.  They had a great time on it.  Keren had a great time crawling on the dirty floor.  As her bubby bubby in America says, “vitamin D, dirt!”