The Laughlins

Well, at least an Israeli visa is everywhere we are going. We got our visas this week. It was a bit of an adventure (at the consulate), what with the consulate being on the top floor (requiring security entrance), a maze of blank hallways and extra thick doors, metal detectors, intercoms at doors, and many games of 20+ questions. We managed to get what we needed though (after their "Now Serving Number ___" got stuck on 06 forever). The other good news is that I got accepted to the summer ulpan program as well, so Mark and I will both be doing language school together. The bad news is that our second apartment that we had lined up (and committed to), fell through the day we committed (just like the last one). I guess there is some other great place out there for us...we just need to locate it. We have been packing a lot and trying to go through all of our stuff. I am also working on (and hoping) that we sell some of our furniture. That is about it for now. We will be camping this coming Thursday-Saturday with my fam in Yosemite. That will be fun, and I'll have more pictures up when we get back. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our staff bowling day about a week ago. It was going to be a student event, but then the students didn't show up, so we had fun anyways. I bowled 102 (YES!!), which is good seeing my goal was just to break 100.