Safra-Knit

Today was the only day we all took off during Hanukkah, so we decided to go somewhere. I had seen information about the Marzipan Museum in Kfar Tavor, and I’m the driver, so that is where we went.

According to the mapping program I used, it should have taken us about 2 1/2 hours to get there, but we ended up on the slow road, stopped for an early lunch in Ranana, and got there around 2. The museum has a short movie (available in English and Hebrew), and you can see many sculptures made out of marzipan. Several of the sculptures are of Israeli personalities, and truthfully, there were a few I didn’t recognize. They also have a window which looks into the “factory” which is all of one large room.

Afterward they have workshops where you can either sculpt your own marzipan, or do both marzipan and chocolate molding. We chose both, and my girls were covered with chocolate! We had a great time making, ladybugs, snowmen, oranges and other fruit out of marzipan. The baby, and hubby didn’t have as great a time, because it really doesn’t work for under three.

Kfar Tavor is a very cute town, directly under Mt. Tavor (which looks incredibly huge from below). They also have a winery, and we were told also a beehive center where you can learn about the making of honey.

We left there and went home via Beit Shean, and Falafel Zahava, recommended by Treppenwitz. (Yummy!) We didn’t get Zahava working there, but we did let them know that they were highly recommended.

The ride back was nicely uneventful. It has been a long time since I’ve driven on a two lane road with no streetlights, but luckily I always had a vehicle in front of me to “draft” off of.

Things I’ve Done (In Bold)

1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightening at sea does it count if I was on a docked boat in Lake Michigan?
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning while newly pregnant even
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty I think I was about 12 years old.
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train it was pretty icky
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked - does “tremping from the “trempiada” to Efrat count?
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (of the moon)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language umm Hebrew?
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David - there is a funny story about that…
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance - it was for my dad, not myself, and my then 2 year old was seatbelted in with me.
47. Had my portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - nope…too cheap.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp- Dachau
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job - only if you count having a contract not renewed
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone -possibly, but they never were sure
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car Saturn
83. Walked in Jerusalem - ummm..I live there
84. Had my picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House - only the OEOB
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous I don’t know if this or this or maybe this counts?
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby x3
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Rode an elephant

I’ve been tagged for a meme by TriLcat at least twice, so I need to do at least one of them…

Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people (if possible) at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

7 Facts about me

1. I once worked in a camp kitchen as a cook’s assistant (because I was too young to be a counselor), after hacking apart frozen chickens, I didn’t become a vegetarian, but I hate touching raw chicken (I don’t touch raw beef.) and I complain about it every time I cook it. (Working in the incubator on kibbutz didn’t help the situation.)

2. I have two random medical conditions which are named after French physicians. Maybe this is why I don’t like the French. (As a group…I do have a few (very few) French friends…)

3. I have three daughters, am one of two daughters, my mom is one of three daughters, and my mother’s father was the only boy in a family with four sisters.

4. Part of my family tree has been traced back to Lithuania in 1758!

5. My thumbs are different sizes. One is long and thin and the other is short and stubby. Both sides of my family claim that this comes from their side.

6. I’m a knitter–it keeps me calm, and makes me feel good. My girls are all getting hats knit by me for Hanukkah, and I tend to make only small projects.

7. My family moved every six years…when I was 6, 12, I went away to college at 18. I consider the place I lived from 12-18 (Cobleskill) to be my hometown. I’ve never been to the primary tourist attraction of that area.

I’m not tagging anybody, but if you haven’t been tagged yet, consider yourself tagged, and let me know you are doing it in the comments.

I was having a conversation with my 99+ (may she live to 120) Great Aunt about these big companies which are failing and said but what about the tech companies that failed about 7 years ago? She didn’t remember what I was talking about.

Here is a nice video reminder…

I’ve never considered myself to be a knitter of the fashionable things, but guess I am. On the site Whip-up, they have a guide to the best free knitting patterns on the web.

So, I looked through the pictures, and I haven’t done, just one or two of them, I’ve done four of them!!! Well, completed three, the Sartje booties just never got finished. The other projects I’ve done were the pinwheel blanket; given as a gift, the Booga Bag; for myself, and the Ballband dishcloth, to be used as a washcloth–dad kinda took it when the hotel didn’t have any washcloths!

I’m still waiting for the time to make myself a hat. Maybe one of these patterns would work for me.

Now this looks like yummy knitting.

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