Daily rituals

We thought you might like to see some pictures of some of the what, who, and the where filling our days here. Hopefully this will help you get a sense of what our daily lives look like here, until you come to see it yourselves, of course!

This is the dog park where Jed plays, splashes in toxic puddles, and chases little Ethiopian kids. This dog park is only about five minutes from our house, so Jed is a regular there. Lots of folks have dogs here in Be'er Sheba, and there are also plenty of strays to be found roaming about. We spend a good amount of time here, at least twice a day, feeling super lucky it is so close and has grass instead of dust for him to roll around in.







This produce stand is about two minutes from our house. Most of the produce is grown here in Israel due to impressive systems of tapping underground aquifers and the draining of the Red Sea. Luckily, produce is incredibly cheap here and we are eating lots and lots of it. We are here once a day, usually, and are now such reliable customers we get to shop on credit.







Our local coffee house, owned and operated by a couple consisting of a white Israeli, a black Israeli, and a newly arrived gorgoues baby. Thus the name "Black and White". Its like coffee shops in the US in the sense that we get mochas and lattes, its full of students hard at work until late into the night, and they play pop music. Its unlike the coffee shops in the US in that they let Jed come in and roam around, and these fancy beverages cost us about a buck a pop, cheap cheap, as they say.








A typical night at our house, dining on our table and cushions we shipped from 'nam. We like to have people over for dinner, and do so a few times a week. In this photo are Adam, Colin (our rommate from Whitefish, Montana), Havilah (from a family of 8 home-schooled kids hailing from backwoods Oregon), and Heather (from Cochrane, Alberta). We were dining on homecooked grilled salmon, miso rice, local Israeli red wine, and one of Colin's famous salads.





Adam hard at work, studying on our back patio being kept company by his faithful sidekick, our young Jedi. Contrary to popular belief, he does study quite regularly. Here he is pondering the complexities of something that most of us don't care at all about as long as it stays far away from us. Thanks Adam, for learning about this so that the rest of us don't have to.