In Limbo

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Scary to think so, but today it is exactly one year from the day the first snow came to Boston, and we set out to circle the world. For those of you who know our route so far, also know that we’ve failed in our plan to finish the trip in a year and now are barely on our second continent. I thought about summarizing the past year by posting its highlights, but soon realized it was impossible – way too long of a list. Instead, I suggest you take a look at this page. It has thumbnails from every place that we’ve been to and to me it’s like an hors devoirs platter. SmugMug changes them every time you load the page and, even though I can recognize the link by its name, I still wait for the random choice of “hors devoirs” to load.

Our route in South America – coming to your screens straight from my 11 year old sister’s bedroom wall.

We are now in Israel, where we are stuck in limbo – by far not done with our trip, but are yet to start its next leg. Between my painting and Shurik’s Hebrew lessons, we managed to squeeze in an adventure or two.
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Baby Talk

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I’m all jealous of the first words that my friends’ babies are saying. But I just realized my “baby” is uttering his first words as well, in Hebrew. I was taking off my contacts, when Shurik asked half in Hebrew, half in Spanish “How do you say contact lenses?” I replied, and proceeded to ask in Hebrew:
-”How many camera lenses do you have?”
-”I have 4 lenses,” he said. “One of them is a gefilte-fish ear.” (i.e. fish-eye)

And here’s another one:
-”Let’s go to table,” Shurik says to me in Hebrew one night.
-”Table?”
-”It’s the only piece of furniture I know how to say.”

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