We had a fairly uneventful flight accept for a few funny moments. Most of you know that I am not a great flyer. So imagine walking with my mom to the plane and she pulls out a tape recorder that she is using to record our visit. As she is walking down the plank to the plane I hear her saying, " and now we are entering the plane and we will be trapped!!!". So I look at her and start laughing with a bit of anxiety attached to the laughter and I say to her "Mom, you have to stop saying things like that". She turns off the recorder and just laughs. We finally sit down in our seats with hundreds of other people and I am sitting in between my mom and a 23 year old guy who also is not a great flyer and who has never flown out of the US before. He was visiting his Israeli girlfriend who he hadn't seen in 8 months. Of course my sons are now saying that he will be coming over for dinner next week. Anyway, mom turns to me and says how the heck do they get this plane up in the air when it is so heavy. OK, so I am still laughing and starting to have a slow panic but I was very proud of my self and kept calm. We take off and my mom says out loud so everyone can hear "what is that I smoke I smell?" That was it. I turned to her and told her to stop already and the smoke is from the take off.
The next 10 hours were hard and boring and I brought all these things that I thought I was going to do. DAvid, sort of like when we took that little boat ride on our little dingy and I brought everything imaginable to read and write. Well, being squished and tired, all I did was watch tv adn play backgammon on the tv. YOu are right Brian, the video games were fun. Anyway, we landed safely. We found a cab. Our driver was this Jewish guy who was hysterical. He spoke fluent yiddish and had a great time chatting with my mom. He had come to Israel from Germany in 1949. He was very funny and very nice and of course he had to show us pictures of all of his grand children. Anyway, I am going to take a nap and will write again later. L'hitraot and Shalom.
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