The Big Move

Well we finally did it. We moved into our new house about two weeks ago. Abba and Ema and all the kids wanted to thank everyone who helped make our 'dream' house possible. We hope to have our Chanukat HaBayis soon and have as many of you over as we can


Right now Bubby is visiting for about a month and helping us get settled. She and Fay went to Ikea today to get some more 'stuff' to help organize the 'stuff' that we brought with us from Har Nof. Saba bli neder should be arriving on Thursday and staying for Shabbos. So while the older kids are in camp, Noam and Abba are home with nothing better to do than to take some pictures and give you a virtual tour of the house until you get a chance to visit

This is the entrance way to the house. Front door is on the left and the sliding door is to the right. Right now we are the only people who have moved in on our block in the new project known as Mitzpeh Raphael, but we expect more families to be trickling in over the summer as we get closer to the start of the school year.




When you walk in you have the big "salon" living room/dining room/kitchen. Stairs to the left go to the second floor. To the left of the stairs is a little "indoor patio" which will be our Sukkah and a place for the kids to eat outside (and for now to store all of their bicycles, etc.)



And in the back of the main room you have the door to the backyard, and a hallway that turns to the left to the bathroom and two back bedrooms; one of which we are using as an office/guest room and one of which we have made into the playroom.



Next, we move upstairs to the three bedrooms and one bathroom. Elisheva has her own room (for now). Ima and Abba share a room with Talia, and the boys all share one room with their bunkbed



We also have two big balconies (Mirpeset) upstairs on the two ends of the hallway. Here is a picture of the larger front balcony that faces the street. We hope to someday get permission to make this into a master bedroom, but for now its a nice play area for the kids to use



And just in case you forgot, we have moved to Mitzpeh Yericho, about 10 miles east of the Jerusalem border. Sort of like Mister Rodger's Jewish Neighborhood in the middle of Nevada. (Grass not included...)



Yes, those are sand dunes that surround the Yishuv on three sides with the eastern side overlooking the Jordan Valley in the distance. This is the side view from our front balcony in the WSW direction, directly inline with the Old City of Jerusalem, and the direction that all the shuls in the neighborhood daven towards.