Holiday Inn Express Richmond Airport Sandston

... for school field trips and usually the boys like it more than the girls. I thought the grounds of it a little odd, not because of all of the cannons, which one might expect, but because the cannons are intermixed with short trees that are groomed into conical shapes, irregularly spaced about the place. I did not get near the Arc du Triomphe, but it is beautiful in the distance with a flag waving in the center. I’m told the tomb of the unknown ...

... man, who was looking right back at my.

This is when the alarm bells started going off in my head. He just made me uneasy, the way he was staring at me. He asked wh**e I had come from and I answ**ed "Washington DC". The look of hatred in his eyes startled me, and he spat "you're full of **** if you're from DC". I hastened to clarify that I wasn't, in fact, from th**e, but I had only been visiting. This was when I knew he was some ...

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Our end cost, all included (including souveniers)for 3 people for 15 days was $8,700.

The plane fair from Richmond to TelAviv was $1,050 per person taxes and fee included. This was after lots of daily checking and buying tickets at almost their low point about 10 wweks out from the trip. I also discovered that, at least with US AIR flights on TH, F, SA were slightly more expensive. By 3 weeks away ...

Well we started off right, but we hit lots of traffic on Rt. 95 heading into Mt.Vernon and Richmond. Made a historic pit stop at Mt. Vernon. Pretty impressive place. I almost embarrassed Kristi and had us kicked out for rubbing my face on General Washington's pillow. They take that stuff very seriously nowadays.

Then off to Richmond where we met Ryan and Kelly. First night...hotel...not bad.
We hit ...

Sunday July 26, 2009

Luba and I slept in until about 830am. Bevil and Stewart were, of course, up, dressed and waiting for us. Bevil and Stewart took us to O'Doul’s for breakfast and then afterwards took us to visit the family plot at the Hollywood Cemetery. It was great to see that Luba was actually interested to see where my father and family were buried. After a short ride through Richmond we headed back to the ...

... activities), and I would have checked it out if I had a car. After a little traffic, we arrived at Kings Dominion!

I used to be quite an avid rollercoaster fan- back in middle and early high school days. I even got a season pass to 6 Flags over Georgia a couple years in a row... They were only $50 or so for the whole summer. My guy friends and I would strategize how to maximize our time by using the Flash ...

The trip from Indianapolis, IN through KY and WVA was hectic and nothing new to see except for a quick tour of Louisville, KY.

The roads were really bad and conjested from Indianapolis on. We overnighted in Louisville and took a quick, err, slow tour on the horse cart around the downtown area. Not a bad city, except for ...

... eine stadt als überdimensionales freilichtmuseum.

das leben der ersten siedler wird in den gut erhaltenen straßenzügen quasi lebendig.

am abend weiterfahrt nach richmond. das hört sich jetzt insgesamt nicht nach so viel aus aber glaubt mir: es ist mehr als genug für einen tag!

... my image of all historical figures talking like pirates might be misguided, but my elementary school textbooks can't compete with Johnny Depp and his roguish charisma.

It was a fun couple of weeks though, and I need time like that with my mom to supplement our primary communication of Skype calls from 10,000 miles away. From there, it was off to NYC to see the city sans my previous fog of jet-lag and incessant vomiting. Sans. Who talks like that?

... Found out something interesting about the US Military: an officer can't marry a enlisted soldier (non officer). Imagine that restriction in Israel, imagine all the marriages that would not have happened... Well that's the land of the free for you, so different so class defined, makes me look so differently on our Military. That's it for now. Till next time. Check my photo album on supershim.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.p hp?set_albumName=album11