http://www.chadica.com Living a year in Israel and beyond! Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:10:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was going to post the pictures from our trip to Turkey, but for some reason the software that I normally use is crashing my web browser. That is Lo Tov (not good). So here is a link to the Flickr page instead. In the upper right corner, there is a ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/06/01/trip-to-turkey/ Hiking near the Dead Sea In March, Jess and I went with some friends hiking near the Dead Sea. [flickr]set:72157617644316008[/flickr] Trip to the Negav At the end of March, HUC took the students on a trip to the Negav. This included going to a solar facility, hiking, hanging out in a tourist Bedouin tent, ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/05/05/catching-up-on-photos/ So Jess and I traveled with Scott and Amy into the desert. Even added another country when we visited Petra for a day. Here are some pics: [flickr]set:72157615718847525[/flickr] http://www.chadica.com/2009/03/31/trip-to-the-negev-with-scott-and-amy/ When I uploaded the entry about Africa, I left out the pictures for Zanzibar. They have now been loaded below. http://www.chadica.com/2009/01/27/oops/ Well, we are back from Africa and life has officially resumed in Jerusalem. Jess is back in class and I'm back at the laptop working. In the past few days, I've edited and uploaded about 180 of the 2800+ pictures that we took. I feel like they are a good ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/01/26/out-of-africa/ -1.7249589988527971 35.3759765625 ..but having it during baby season? much cooler.   So Jess and I are back from our first safari in Kenya. Tomorrow we leave for Tanzania. Trust me on this, it will take a while to get pictures posted and a full blog entry to describe everything we've seen. Hopefully I remember ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/01/13/safari-in-kenya-is-cool/ -1.5294931 35.1708741 This is not an article posted by me. From what I have heard, the American coverage of Gaza has been extremely biased. So here is a blog from a woman living 1 mile away from Gaza in Sderot. Sderot is the city that has been bombed for the last 6+ ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/01/08/wartime-in-israel-what-it-looks-like-from-sderot/ 31.56730322656187 34.541015625 Well, it's definitely been a couple of weeks. So here's the update. Christmas Eve The strangest thing about Christmas in Jerusalem is how normal the day felt. Stores were open, people were all around. No Christmas lights, or Silent Night on an endless loop. To be honest, it didn't feel like Christmas ... http://www.chadica.com/2009/01/05/christmas-new-years-and-beyond/ Jess and I would like to wish everyone a happy Hanukkah. We were out for a walk tonight and got to see the large menorah's being lite around the city. Near Ben Yehuda (the big tourist street), there was a large menorah with loud speakers blaring jewish music as they ... http://www.chadica.com/2008/12/21/a-bittersweet-hanukkah/ So apparently, we haven't been very vocal about our plans for winter break. Instead of telling you where we're going...I thought I would bring in some video and just show you: Yup, we're going to Kenya & Tanzania! We'll be spending 10 days on safari, followed by a couple of days ... http://www.chadica.com/2008/12/15/winter-break-another-adventure/