We spent the first half of the weekend - Friday evening through Saturday afternoon - visiting our friends in Baltimore, KM and AM and their children IM, AW and CR. KM was instrumental in me being able to come to the US, as he sponsored my J-1 visa, and he and ADC have been friends from childhood (their fathers were postdocs together). IM and AW are ( Read more... )

Today was a glorious day, not too hot and not too cold. As we have been warned that spring in the greater DC area is fleeting, we decided that there was no time like the present to go on a hike. We chose the MD Great Falls park (there is a VA Great Falls park, too - I find the lack of imagination shown by early European settlers very irritating), ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I updated here ... probably because all the festivities have meant more frequent Skypeing with Israel.

It is already three weeks ago that we went to the National Mall, finally. A has been reading a book on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln for a book report, so we aimed for the Lincoln Memorial. On the way, we went ( Read more... )