October 9, 2001

Just a day of hanging out. One of our friends invited Elizabeth to come visit at her falafel restaurant and play some ping-pong. Her English is quite exceptional, and the falafel is pretty good, too! Most of the people who come to the restaurant are teenage boys from her extended family and their friends, but students from the University are helping business a bit. It's still nowhere near the level it was before the Intifada and resulting siege.

Ping-pong.

One of the draws is the ping-pong table (to Marthame's disappointment they removed the foosball one), and we both got in a couple games. Marthame was beaten by one of his ninth grade students - we'll chalk it up to rusty muscle-memory for now (just to make him feel better).