SigalTchelet
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- Aug 20, 2011
Hi Miriam!
I am going on the Fantasy from Port Canaveral. We have 3 Sea days and stop in St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Castaway Cay. It leaves the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I am going with my caregiver/friend, Linda (I'm in a wheelchair). I am going to fly down to L.A. the day before Thanksgiving si I can spend it and the first 2 nihts of Hanukkah with my folks. Linda will fly down and meet me at LAX so we can fly out to Florida on Friday. We will stay at the Hyatt at the airport in Orlando. I am so darned excited. We have a really active meet group, that I found here on Disboards. They have a FB group and we are doin FE. I just ordered some magnets for it. I can't wait!and Great to have you! Yes, I used to post on MP ages ago.
Thank you!
This will be our third bar/bat mitzvah in a row. We're certifiable for sure. We belong to a very small synagogue with only student rabbis so I'm truly hoping that last year's student rabbi can officiate Joshua's big day.
That would be so cool if he/she could do it. You said the Rabbi is in CA-where abouts?
We try to tell them to go slow too but they all seem to rush through their portions. I did a portion at our oldest and then an Aliyah at Chloe's and will most likely do an Aliyah at Joshua's. Learning the portion was so overwhelming for me. Old dog and new tricks and all that.
I am always shocked that I am able to follow along in the Hebrew. It is very difficult to learn. I never had a Bat Mitzvah as a kid so I did it as an adult in 1999. That will be good for you to do an Aliyah. In our synagogue (Reform), the parents do the 6th Aliyah.
I love that your username is your Hebrew name! Mine is Miriam. Not very creative. I love that name! I love Miriam's Song (LOVE Debbie Friedman)
I haven't been to Israel but would love to one day, it's a dream. Did you love it? How long we're you there? I absolutely loved it-we were there for 2 weeks. A group of families from our synagogue went led by our Director of Education. It was multi-generational-8 year olds-Grandparents in their 70's. I loved seeing Israel through the kids eyes. We have a good sized congregation-600 families. We send our Confirmation class to Israel every year through NFTY. It's a wonderful, albeit expensive program. If your girls don't go to Israel by the time they are 18, they really should go through Birthright!
I think I saw that one of the ships had something for Holocaust Memorial Day so I'm thinking they'd recognize Hanukkah too. I hope they do. That'd be very cool. Yes, that would be very cool.
Are you kosher? We're not. We're reform, pretty liberal. We don't do pork or shellfish at home though. Vacation is another story. My middle, Chloe, doesn't have dietary restrictions due to medical issues so she can eat whatever she wants. She's a bacon fanatic.
I am not Kosher and tell Chloe I love bacon too. lol
I will for sure post about Club 33. I'm beyond elated. A very generous friend is sponsoring us in and joking in my BFF and I for lunch in celebration of my 44th birthday.
Tell me about your cruise later this year. I love the details!