Summer Courses Over...Heading For Tel Aviv

After what seemed like an intense think tank session placed inside a pressure cooker summer courses are over.  I now get to relax and thankfully I have family that pitched in together so that I could go visit.  It's been over ten years since I was last in Israel.  This should be pretty interesting.  Two weeks of sun and being in what I remember as one of the greatest places on earth.  I will be in Tel Aviv-Jaffa for six days.  I'm really excited to see the renewed Israel Museum.  I'll be in Jerusalem for only a couple of days.  I plan on making a visit to the Kotel, or as many know as the Wailing Wall or Western Wall, to lament losses over the past few years.  I definitely intend to put a prayer in the Kotel about Eric and I.  I will then be off to the kibbutz where I will see more family.  Masada is beautiful and I worked there for a summer a long time ago.  I plan on not doing much work this time but just dropping by the Sea of Galilee and maybe letting some of this grief just melt off of me.  It has become a privatized kibbutz since I was last there so I guess I will see how the new take on socialism is now.  I couldn't have asked for a better gift from family so far away that has been so concerned about me.  Thank you so much Yuri for instigating this whole thing.  I am happy that my distant family took you in when I left so long ago.  I love you forever.  Maybe this time we won't have to sneak around so much.