Dina's Wedding

So we didn't leave the house until after noon and we wanted to visit Aunt Frimmet in Far Rockaway before we had to be back at the hall in Atlantic Beach for pictures. So of course we are having a great time at Aunt Frimmet and stay too long and get to the Sands a little after 2:15. Feeling guilty that we are fifteen minutes late we enter to find as usual that we are one of the first relatives there.


But it was good to get a chance to spend time with our relatives (as they arrived) while we waited for pictures.



Finally, around 3:30 we were all ready to take the family picture



Ezra and Elisheva have been talking about walking down the aisle as the flower girl and escort with cousin Racheli for weeks before the wedding. When the moment had arrived, they looked great and were in good shape until they got to beginning the aisle. But then.......



Apparently no one had told Elisheva to drop one petal at a time as she walked down the aisle, so......she basically dumped all of the flowers out of the basket at the beginning of the aisle and when she ran out - wasn't exactly sure what to do. So the kids just kind of froze with everyone motioning for them to go down the aisle.

It was a lovely simcha and we hope Zach and Dina enjoyed their day and have a happy life together

Our Visit to America

We arrived Sunday afternoon October 7th and headed directly for Great Neck. After some bagels we went with Saba, Uncle Joshua, Aunt Lisa, Racheli and Sara to Allenwood Park
Afterwhich Ezra promply fell off the monkey bars and we ended up in the North Shore University Hospital emergency room for the duration of the night. Diagnosis: buckle fracture of the wrist. He would be in splint until he could see the doctor on Tuesday morning, afterwhich he received his glow-in-the-dark cast for about 3-4 weeks.

Monday Columbus day, Savta took us to the "Harvest Festival" on the Village Green of Great Neck. We basically took turns holding on to our place in line for the pony rides.



An hour and a half wait for a 30 second lap on the back of a equine hyperlipemia. Savta capped off the day by treating us to Lunch at King Kosher Pizza

Tuesday was Ezra's doctor visit and a shopping day at Payless Shoe Store, Old Navy and an indoor merry-go-round for the kids. Wednesday we traveled to Elizabeth via Brooklyn and stopped off at Grandma Rhoda for Lunch/Dinner on Ocean Parkway in Flatbush



Then on to Manhattan Beach for Dinner #2 with Gail, David, Racheli and Yoni before arriving at Princeton Road a little after 9 PM

Thursday and Friday we spent with Grandpa, Bubby; uncles Shlomo, Yudi, Avi; as well as Uncle Bentzy, Aunt Michelle, Akiva and Ella. Naturally, we did a lot of shopping and Elisheva got her long awaited earings when Abba wasn't around.



For Shabbos, Abba went to the Ufruf in Englewood and Ima and the kids stayed in Elizabeth with the gang. We met back in Elizabeth for Chinese food and to discuss Uncle Avi's future before heading back to Great Neck to get a good night sleep before the wedding.

What We Did Over Sukkot Vacation

Here is a picture of Elisheva and Ezra coloring in the Laskey Family Sukkah in the Sharei Chesed /Rechavia neighborhood

Other things we did during chofesh
1st day of Sukkot we had Ari Leskowitz and Moshe Schaffer for Dinner

1st day of Chol HaMoed we went to the bris of Uriel Tzvi Gabler (son of Benjy and Penina Gabler). The bris was in the sukkah of the Orenstein family of Elazar. The last time we were there was for Benjy's Ufruf (how time flies)

Shabbos Chol HaMoed we hosted Avraham Wernick and Simcha Feldman in our "little sukkah" for Dinner, which both Elisheva and Ezra decorated nicely with school projects and paper chains

Sunday Chol HaMoed we went to the Annual Sukkos Event at the Stark family succah with a Magician and concert with Shlomo Katz. Plenty of Pizza and Ice Cream for the kids. On a full stomach we went next to the Somogyi Family for a barbque at her Sukkah with Joshua, Eli and Michael & Elle

Monday was a rest day so the kids just spent time at the park. Tuesday we went to the Laskey sukkah and we almost went to Ramot to Yehudah Katz's sukkah, but the parade in downtown Jerusalem slowed us down a little bit and traffic made getting to Ramot difficult.

Simchas Torah was spent with Derech Etz Chaim and the kids had a great time