Sunday, November 14

What a gorgeous day today! Mark was in Atlantic City with the guys celebrating David Klein's 50th, so Jeremy and I headed into D.C. We saw the new Asia Trail exhibit at the zoon, the new elephant enclosure is amazing - it just goes on and on for acres! There used to be a huge hill that got you to the bird house, now it's connected via a bridge, no hill! The elephants can now use it for exercise! After our lovely walk around, we headed to Bethesda to Howard Wasserman's new deli. There was a huge crowd, I was so happy for him! But he laments the fact that you can't get good help and he's behind a lot on orders and will probably have to steal a few people from other places.  Now at home, made a big pot of soup, about to grill a chicken, and hope to see Parky, Mom and Dad shortly!

Veteran's Day '10

On Rememberance Day in Toronto, I always remember everyone stopping what they were doing on 11:11. "In Flander's Field" was read over the intercom, and for a week or two before, everyone wore a poppy in their lapel. Today I was in the mall with Jeremy at 11:11, looked at my phone and told him about what we typically did. No one stopped what they were doing, in fact it was fairly busy because a lot of kids had no school today. We simply do not remember the fallen and those who served like we should. In Israel, Yom Hazikaron is one of the saddest, most sombre days of the year, in the U.S. it's an opportunity to buy a really great mattress on sale.