Evening explorations

So, there's been a few signs that seem to indicate that Helen is supposed to be here... Tonight, when we were walking after dinner, we ran into the
picture on the left, which was actually the second rubix cube signage we have seen. Last night, there was a deathly hallows symbol spray painted on a neighborhood sidewalk.

We've been doing a little exploring north of our apartment after
dinner these last few nights. It gives the littles a chance to be squirmy and get some energy out and lets the rest of us explore. Last night, we discovered the sun sets much earlier than it does in Oberlin--it was pretty dark by 8pm. That meant the little-kid playground that we found to the NE was deserted. Tonight we started out earlier and that playground had a ton of 3-to-4-year olds that our girls played around. Swings and seesaws are pretty universal. Helen's avatar of a melting rubik cube--the pin at the location of our apartment on the map--seems particularly apt here in Israel.

On tonight's exploration, we went a bit further north to a bigger green spot on the map and found the Ra'anana music performance center and a sports complex. Very fancy looking.

Here's a picture of our apartment building as we returned this evening.

Other exciting things today: we rented a car, Helen had an interview at her school, the girls had their first falafel (wish we had taken a picture...), Helen and Jan got cold medicine at a pharmacy, we navigated a no-English situation with Jan's SIM card, and we cooked our first meal in the kitchen, having not been able to figure out how to turn on the stove last night.