Monday, June 14, 2010

monday, june 14, 2010

ahh..memories...

i apologize for not blogging over the weekend. as most of you know, son #1 graduated yesterday. it was a really nice ceremony..very moving..lots of tears (by the parents, of course...i have never seen 23 boys look more uncomfortable singing two songs in my whole life...some of them would have been happier in front of a firing squad...)but even with all of my pessimism and negativity, the graduation committee pulled off a really nice "first ever graduation of yeshivat noam class of 2010."

enough about that....

over the weekend ari and i were very excited to attend a 40th birthday celebration for one of his close(and old/dear..cant call him old, because he is younger than ari)friends. anyway, we walked on saturday afternoon, crossing the border between old teaneck and very young and fertile bergenfield. when approaching their home, i realized that i left my stroller at home and prayed that i didn't have a hot flash for fear of scaring off the other guests...(insert comment about the many other reasons i could have scared off the other guests here) it was a really pleasant few hours we spent there...ari and this young man had lived together through college and law school. they shared an apartment that I am safely assuming has been condemned since they lived there, due to the foot long thick layer of mold that encased pretty much the entire bathroom..("it was a great apartment banji, what are you talking about?" boys and their dirty apartments...uggg)

so this friend married a lovely girl from amsterdam and ari and i were able to attend the wedding...which was almost 12 years ago(time flies when you are having fun) i think it is still one of the best vacations we ever took. i had explained to my naive husband that pot(which i then had to explain was a slang for marijuana, because lord knows he doesn't know what pot is or even what an actually pot is...)is legal in amsterdam. when we got there, he spent the next four days inhaling deeply and then exclaiming "i think i smell it! i think i smell it!" no, honey, that isn't it, and if you keep inhaling that deeply, you might hyperventilate and pass out...

we learned about dutch culture and how after the the wedding ceremony, they give the people a few hours off to go back to work. in our case, we needed to see the famous rembrandt painting in the famous museum....(you think i remember the name of either?!?!) being the intellectuals that we were (and, unfortunately, still are) we borrowed a ticket, ran up the stairs, looked at the painting, scratched out heads(ari might've scratched another body part, i am not sure) said "this is the famous painting?"and went to a street fair. who says we aren't cultured??...we even learned some dutch words like "dumpenflaggen" which means.."oh lord, i must go to the bathroom..." (ari actually made that word up....sorry honey...the only people laughing at that, might be us...)

anyway, the lovely afternoon in bergenfield brought back some great memories...so happy birthday to ari's friend(he is a lawyer and i am afraid if i write his actually name, he might sue me for defamation of character....) and may we all reflect on wonderful times we have had and pray for more wonderful times in the future...

happy monday

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