{"id":1155,"date":"2010-11-14T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:42","slug":"marine-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Marine Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Marine Ball<\/p><\/div>\n

Last night was our first Marine Ball and it was so fun! Everyone was all dressed up and looking good, plus there was a fantastic band. It was held at a hotel, not far down the beach from us, so we were able to walk there and back.<\/p>\n

The Marines were handsome in their uniforms; I enjoyed the presentation of the colors, and the observance of other traditions: cutting a cake with a sword, and the oldest Marine (57) passing a slice to the youngest Marine (21) to symbolize passing knowledge from one generation to the next; the table left empty to remember those who died. All very moving. Click here for more photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday was Veteran’s Day and we had the day off. John and I set out fairly early to explore other parts of the city near us. We walked up Dizengoff and back down Ben Yehuda. I got to go inside the lobby of the restored Esther Cinema, now the Cinema Hotel<\/a>,\u00a0a beautiful old Bauhaus building (Tel Aviv has the largest concentration of Bauhaus style architecture in the world, and is a World Heritage Site).<\/p>\n

While we were out, we stopped for brunch and had shakshouka <\/a>– eggs poached in tomato sauce, usually with eggplant and cheese.<\/p>\n

Work was busy, as usual, with some interesting cases. I got to help the ACS unit, going with a young American woman to a local bank to get money her mother had sent her.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week was pretty normal. We watched “The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/a>,” which was excellent, and a couple other movies, including “Iron Man 2<\/a>” (fun). I re-read Tom Perrotta’s “Little Children<\/a>” yesterday.<\/p>\n

I found out that the odd bird in last week’s blog is the state bird of Israel, the hoopoe <\/a>(pronounced hoo-poo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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