so today karina and i went shopping at the "grand canyon", the name of this huge mall here and got a lot of stuffs. and we walked around haifa and every taxi in the world pulled over and tried to offer us rides and i had to stutter out the hebrew words for "no thanks we don't need a ride". everything was closed for shabbat except for this arab-israeli owned restaurant on the beach called MAXIM so we went there. last year there was suicide bombing there and the place was like a giant smoldering hole, so it was weird to go inside the newly rebuilt MAXIM today.
that was at sukkot dinner at my aunt's. what a russian meal. i looked over at my uncle's wine glass and i saw that he filled it all the way with water and then i looked next to the glass and saw a bottle of vodka sitting there. karina's a doll. i love that girl.