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Last updated: 3 April 2004

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Life in Israel

We were extremely busy for the last couple of months, packing out our house in two shipments, shipping the cars, travel to Rome, and turning over work to Stephanie's successor.

In addition to saying our farewells to all our good friends at some small dinners, we did have the opportunity to say goodbye at some larger venues:

  • "Blue Mafia", Naval Attache's assigned to Israel
  • Association of Military Attache's in Israel. See Vic's speech here.
  • U.S. Defence Attache Office (USDAO) Tel Aviv. See Steph's speech here.
  • Israel Naval Force Intelligence
  • Israel Naval Force. See Steph's speech here.

We left Israel on Saturday, 13 December 2003 and stopped in Argentina to visit some good friends we met in Israel before going to Stephanie's family in Florida, around the 22nd of December. We celebrated both Christmas and Channukah at Uncle Marks house.

We then drove to Atlanta to visit Marci and Alex and then stopped in High Point, NC to buy Master Bedroom furniture and and entertainment center. We finally spent some time in the snow in Virginia Beach before moving back into the our old house. Steph is now the Staff Intelligence Officer for the Commander of Carrier Group Four

 

 

 

 

The Leungs in front of the Temple Mount (Harem esh-Sharif) as viewed from the Mount of Olives.

     

Vic and the kids initially went t o California. They were there for about a month and then flew out to Florida with the kids at the end of March to surprise my mom for her Birthday. They got to go to Disney World with Marci, Alex, Jenna, and Seth. After that they went to Sea World with Uncle Mark and Abbey. They then stayed with Uncle Mark for the rest of the week and visited Grandma Inky as she was admitted to the hospital as part of her ongoing disease. Samantha spent the rest of the week finishing up her homework package with the assistance of Aunt Jennifer, Dad, Ama and Yeh Yeh. It was a pretty challenging package and required a team effort to finish!

After a week, they went back to CA where Samantha continued 1st/2nd grade at Sutter Elementary and Nicole got a rude awakening on the American Pre-school experience at Childrens' World. Timothy got to stay home with Vic and went shopping (electronics) alot.

At the end of combat operations, Steph went to Florida tovisit Inge before picking up the rest of the family in California for our short trip back to Israel. Along the way we got to visit our friends, the Kwons and Lourdes Neilan. Once back to Israel, we hit the deck-plated hard, running ourselves out of gas. We were so busy there was no time to update this web-page.

Mitzpe Ramon - Located in the middle of the Negev Desert, this is the Israel equivalent to the U.S. Grand Canyon and was formed over a period of millions of years. We stopped here on our way to Eilat, the Southern port of Israel on the Red Sea.

While in Eilat, we got to ride Camels and observe undersea life at the Observatory. On the way back we stopped at the ancient Nabatean city of Avdat, a way point along the old spice route.

Other sites and information can be viewed at the Israel National Parks Authority web site.

 

 

 
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