Chanukah at the Zoo

***APPARENTLY THIS BLOG FROM CHANUKAH 2009 NEVER GOT POSTED***


The kids have off from school for the whole week of Chanukah. Baruch Hashem the Zoo is only a bus ride away.

Ezra volunteered to be the first to wear the snake around his next from the whole group of kids. Just look at Elisheva's unscripted reaction
But then she was brave enough to give it a try.
We learned that snakes will only eat things that have a circumference of a maximum 4 times as big as they are. And will only use their teeth to bite when they are eating. And that they only eat about once every six weeks. And this snake had just eaten about a week ago.

For some reason Elazar wasn't scared of the real Bengal tigers we saw behind the glass, but he was scared of the goats in the petting zoo and the zoo staffer dressed up in the Tiger suit

Gersten Chanukah in Beitar

The Gerstens and Aunt Rochelle met in Beitar on the 2nd day of Chanukah

Elisheva, Ezra, Elazar and Ima travelled by bus from Har Nof to Beitar. Elazar was eating a banana on the bus and it fell down and rolled near the door. Then when the driver opened the door the banana fell out the door. Ezra lost 20 agurot.

Ima held Aliza and Elisheva and Esti played with the kitchen set and played house (Ima and Abba) with all the dolls. Elisheva ate a lot of doritos and chocolate coins.

Ezra ate a lot of potato chips and went outside to play hide and seek with the rest of the kids. Aunt Rochelle brought candy bags for all the kids.

(As told by Elisheva and Ezra)

Elazar's Gift of Gab

Elazar has become quite the talker
Here are two Elazar videos where Elazar discusses the world of animals



and the parts of the body



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