Israel in July

In November 2007 we received the wonderful news that the daughter of our dear friends, beautiful Leeor, was to be married in July. Leeor means "light" in Hebrew, and in her short 20 years on the planet she has not just brought the gift of light, but spirit and brilliance and much energy to all whose lives she touches. Given her family lives a short 3 hour jaunt up the then snow-filled highway, I carefully penciled the 2008 date (wedding on a Wednesday?) on our summer calendar. Little did we know then that Leeor and Ohad's nuptials would spark an amazing (and much unanticpated) month of travel and adventure for these 27 year marriage vetrans.


"The wedding", papa Michael informed my Frank, "will be in Israel...in Haifa to be exact. AS father of the bride,I have been told to show up, pays the bills and not ask too many questions. I would love it if you could come."


The highway on which we were to "jaunt" took on a whole new world of possibilities!