My trip to Tucson got approved today so I'm finally getting to go somewhere for professional development. This is a happy occasion but a little depressing because I never think that anyone should get so excited about professional development.
In other news, we will hopefully be leaving the country tomorrow provided United can get their 777 airplanes up and flying.
We finally bought new lights for the entry, staircase and dining room. We will get these installed soon!
Thinking about the summer and taking another class at Harper College. So far it's a tie between figure drawing and oil/acrylic painting. I'm leaning more towards the painting one actually.

I have published new pictures on our Flickr account. Be sure to check out the Israel collection of photos! They are mostly of Israel and Tampa. Mostly they are lovely but I have come to the decision that with digital or film, I never take enough photos. It is a sad realization. Mainly , I think I should have taken pictures of the glorious food we ate and every hotel room we stayed in. So in case there are no pics to reflect the fun we had in Israel, here are some lovely things that we did:

• visited the artist village of Ein Hod
• waited patiently for the rain to stop in Haifa (it never did)
• experienced rain & hail in the Negev
• petted an alpaca and a donkey
• enjoyed a McKabob
• ate about a ton of hummus
• visited the Atlit Immigration Camp
• flew home on El Al in flight attendant seats