{"id":1851,"date":"2012-04-22T00:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T06:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:15","slug":"back-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"Back in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Dave at Tonic<\/p><\/div>\n

I accidentally went AWOL on my blog last week. I arrived back in Tel Aviv last Sunday and was just so jet-lagged that I neglected Criplomats!<\/p>\n

My last week in DC with John was great. We saw some A-100 friends – Dave, Manju, Scott, Brandon and Dean – at Tonic. Dave brought his new Israeli bride Shani to meet everyone. We had a great time getting caught up. Dave is on Cloud 9 – wonderful to see him so happy, and Shani is delightful.<\/p>\n

My new boss is Islamabad is currently at Main State, so I set up a meeting with him. He seems quite nice. We talked for about 45 minutes – it’s nice to put a face with a name.<\/p>\n

I also had the chance to see my good friend from Juarez, Pam – we got together for lunch one day. She is currently working in the Overseas Citizens Services group.<\/p>\n

John and I had some great meals – we had lunch at Smith and Wolensky’s one day…and we just had to go back to RT’s once more before I left. \u00a0I had to have that pecan-crusted haddock again – so good!<\/p>\n

Then Saturday late afternoon, I started the trek back to Tel Aviv. Boy, was Flavie happy to see me! When I opened the front door, I called her name and heard this little “Mew.” She came out and just followed me around like a puppy, bless her little heart!<\/p>\n

This week at work was good, although I’ve been fighting jet lag so sleeping was difficult at first. Had a nice lunch out with Juan and Jacob on Friday. The weather here is gorgeous right now.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the first Saturday where it was really warm enough to be at the beach. There was a constant traffic jam all around the apartment. Hillary and George came down to test drive the Corolla (they are buying it from me), and traffic was a mess. I later took a long walk on the beach promenade – just\u00a0beautiful!<\/p>\n

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John and Shani<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Manju, Dean, Scott<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With Brandon<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I accidentally went AWOL on my blog last week. I arrived back in Tel Aviv last Sunday and was just so jet-lagged that I neglected Criplomats! My last week in DC with John was great. We saw some A-100 friends – Dave, Manju, Scott, Brandon and Dean – at Tonic. Dave brought his new Israeli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}