The Perfect Cappucino

Soo the other exciting part about the apt is the cappucino maker...Israel is full of coffeeshops with awesome capp's and we love them. It's a large part of the culture here (among other things, hummus, zatar, etc.) and after having large amounts them in the 3 years that I've been here, I'm very happy to make it part of daily life.

The challenge of course is, making them yourself, should you have a machine. I tried once a while ago when I first got here, it was a slight disaster - and it just wasn't quite the same as Aroma. But while I was away in Germany, Nicole who was also catsitting, would come by for one or two or three...So since then I've learned to make them...better...

AND one day (just a few days ago) I really did almost make the perfect cappucino, almost... We only know one person who we've selfishly required be on his life-long-goal list..and he makes them pretty dang good. Franklin bought his capp maker in ITALY though :) which of course immediately pushes the quality up to beyond amazing, but Franklin is famous for being a 'perfect capp maker...'

Mine came close. And now I have to leave the apt - with the cats and the Mr. Coffee behind. It's almost tragic and JUST when I was getting into it...

More goodbyes to Hudi and Izzy...

BABIES!! They love to sleep on people's laps...well Izzy did - and when people weren't around, then Hudi came out... this is Rachel and Izzy in the left pic and me, Zac and Izzy in the other pic on one of our all-nighters watching "24" ...this time we happened to stay up until 6am to finish the season! Awesome... Izzy loved it!














Below is a pic of one of the first bonding moments that I had with Izzy when I first arrived..."Don't get attached!!!" is my dad's famous quote regarding any cats that we meet....















and they do everything together...

Last Days in Rehavia

Well, I've lived for almost 4 months in this apartment...at first it was somewhat weird to move into someone else's house when they aren't there. You don't know where everything is, and where they put stuff, etc...but it grew on me!

As did their kitties :) the real reason why I was asked to live here. Here's some pics of the apt AND of the dead bird that I found lying on the floor one night when I got home. I screamed and asked Tony and Nicole to tell me if I had really seen what I thought it was....I think it was a little gift for me from one of the cats. Apparently cats are known to do this to show that they love and appreciate you, isn't that sweet...but isn't it when they are outdoor cats??!! How they got this bird from our little balcony I'll never know. THANK GOD Tony was there to get rid of it tho, because I don't know what I would have done.

Hudi and Izzy - You will be missed (sniff, sniff).