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We went to the Galilee over the weekend and met our friends David and Ronnie at a hotel on the beach. We drove up past the Dead Sea, alongside the Jordanian border; it is a stark, spectacular drive, and we kept passing caves in the rocks, squatter camps, Jewish settlements and vast stretches of desert and mountain. The drive was a bit stressful because Lev starting manifesting stomach flu about an hour and a half outside Jerusalem. He threw up near the Dead Sea, and kept threatening to throw up all the way through the desert and then the changing landscape of the lower galilee. He recovered when we arrived, enough to see the ostriches, to swim in the lake, to run on the shore and to play the long imaginative games that he and Benjamin delight in and which depend on no setting except their imagination.