Tuesday, August 26, 2008

More Sea of Galillee




                               Isabella loves to swim, and here as well,
There were lots of little fish in this lake

                                                Here is a special view of the lake from high up 
                                    In the nights we hung out in the bustling town, Isabella loved the Carosel


SEA OF GALILLEE

We arrived at the Sea of Galillee, just the two of us. It is really a lake. We had several options for swimming there. There were hot springs, pool, and the lake. Isabella was happy to stay put for awhile, until our next adventure.



                                                                             Tiberias

                                                  Lake Kinneret or Sea of Galillee
                                            My yoga queen



More Dead Sea Pictures

When our Tour was over, Isabella and I went in a rent car in the evening fom Jerusalem to The Dead Sea.  

It was such a beautiful sight. The sun was setting, and the terrain was changing. We were getting into the desert, as the full moon came out.
We stayed a few days. We stayed there in a youth hostel. It had a view of the Dead Sea.
The moon was full the whole time.




                                                                      Famous Masada
                                                   We drove from the Dead Sea to Tiberia,
                                   on the way we came across a goat and sheep hurddle                                 

                                                 Isabella was so excited to see this

                                        From Here We stayed a few days by the Sea of Galilee.
                                         Next group of pictures

Friday, August 22, 2008

Camel Riding and Yad Vashem

Continuing my Israel Trip, 

On the way back from the Dead Sea, on my first visit there, we rode camels.
Well let me tell you, they are so humble, gentle, and have great balance, we went around curves, that i would not have trsted, just any horse.!


Thats me in the baseball cap...

and Isabella saying hello to the camel,




and then we went to the Holocost Museam,


Yad Vashem, its name, means, a name with a face




and we said a prayer


Favorite Foto Friday #53 Friends With Stuffing


Here we are at FFF Sarah's Favorite Foto Friday, with this weeks theme, Friend's with stuffing.

Our animal friend's are limited, because after my dog died for several reasons i have not got another, and Isabella's attachment to her blanket is more than her stuffed animals, but
I dug up some pics when she was 2 months, with her Teddy, which we bought in Guatemala, I should say her first Teddy.


Definately her bottle was more important than her Teddy


Here is Isabella in the hammack with her new kitty friend

The dog was hanging out in the park in Antigua so we got Isabella photographed here with her Teddy and new friend


Here I thought Mickey might double as a stuffed, something, Isabella was very shy!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Visiting Asheville featuring Anita and Claire, and Grandma

My Israel trip ended, I will post more pics of the end of my trip soon,  and I flew to Asheville where my mom is in the summer months,
We met up with Anita and Claire too,  Anita and I were using the same adoption agency, and their online group, but when my mom unexpectedly met Anita at her hotel in Antigua when she was visiting Claire , and brought her to my house there, we realized that we had met years previously through a mutual friend in Playa del Carmen!
Here are some pictures from our reunion.

Here are the before and after pictures, 3 years ago, and now, claire and isabella, anita and me








Isabella and Claire with Anita 2005



                                               And Claire grabbed my mom's hand, in the first      
                                                                                          momment.


Grandma and the girls



Beautiful Claire
Our girls have grown up sp fast, now three, Anita
Woops we got close

We went up into the curvy mountains to a beautiful lake, we went on a boat ride,
Here are the girls in the butterfly and flower area, of the Asheville nature center,
They look like butterflys themselves,

Thursday, August 7, 2008

FFF Theme Having A Ball #51

                 Having A Ball on the Carousel in Israel!                                 

       
                              Having  a great time in an oasis in the Dead Sea
                   Surrounded by desert and a very salty lifeless sea, is a water hole 
                   and Isabella is cooling off
                                            
           

I just love that boat ride, Sea of Galilee


Well here we are again, another week has gone by so fast, we are back, from our Israel trip, and I have been so busy, but I will update on the last part of the trip soon, now I am visiting Mom in Asheville N.C. , and have a momment to post this weeks Favorite Foto Friday, with Sarah's group,
Having  A Ball!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

CRAZY HAIR AND BED HEADS! FFF #50


We return to Favorite Foto Friday, Our every friday posts with Sarah's group, and i am posting thursday because tomorrow I will be traveling to Tel Aviv, and I am not sure if I will have internet, or time.
This week is Crazy Hair and Bed Heads, and I thought i wouls post a series of pictures I took recently in Tzfat Israel, which are bed pictures, or Blanky pictures, which Isabella is so attached to!




Here is sleeping beauty, otherwise known as with her blanky!


 My precious dozing off,
Pretending to doze off??
I guess we'll call this messy hair

                               Here is a close up from the same series.




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Monday, July 28, 2008

Walking Home From Classes



I started taking some courses in this great Holy City of Tzfat, Here are some pictures on my way home today, coming from the Old city. The mountain peaks are the famous Mount Meron,
where the great one will come from.