Shana Tova!

I would first like to start this post by say Shana Tova to everyone! I hope you all have a year full of happiness and health.



I spent Rosh Hashana with my cousins in the city of Kfar Saba. It was a nice relaxing three days. I enjoyed all the great hospitality and love that I recieved. I look forward to returning to Kfar Saba often to make a better connection with family here.

The holiday basically went like this:
-Eat
-Sleep
-Hang out with family
-Eat
-Eat
-Sleep
-Eat
-Hang out
-Go to a cool park in Tel Aviv
-Eat
-Hang out
-Sleep
-Eat

Clearly this is a very simplified version of what happened, but you get the gist. I spent most of the time in Haim and Rachel's place. This is where I slept and gained close to five pounds in two days. Haim and Rachel are both in their 70's, but they neither look nor act like they are a day over fifty five. They took very good care of me. Refusing to let me to lift a finger the whole time, even though I did when they weren't looking.

Haim and Rachel have three sons: Erez, Muli, and Lior. Each one of them is married with children. A very tight knit family. They all live close, the farthest of them is about twenty minutes away.

Here is all of us before dinner on Monday night.
(Out of the three pictures taken, this was the best one, and there is still someone not in the frame)

This was a picture taken when I was in Israel the summer of 2006.
Look how everyone has grown!

Tuesday night of Rosh Hashana I went over to Lior and Family's apartment. After keeping his eldest son, Roi, occupied while Lior took care of his youngest, Omer, Lior kindly let me use his WiFi and I skyped everyone back at home in Kansas City. It was about 1 or 2 in the afternoon there, so everyone was at my house in Kansas City getting ready to sit down and eat. It was good to see everybody. While I was talking to everyone I had Roi sitting on my lap. My family was happy to finally meet him. Lior was sitting next to me and he said hello to the family as well. Who ever invented skype, I owe you a big one.

Wednesday morning I went to Erez and family's house in a neighboring city of Kfar Saba. It's a small, sleepy suburb. A great place to raise children. After hanging around in their garden and eating, guess what we did? We went to an Arab village, and of course we ate. Great shwarma. Apartly there is the same one in Yafo. I will have to find it.

If you are interested in looking at some pictures of my family here and the fun we had, here is a link.

Once again, the staff here at "The Adventures of Daniel Siegel" (that's me!) wishes you a happy and healthy new year!