Looking back over the last weeks and months, it feels as if we've been flowing down a swiftly moving river. Then in the days and hours before our departure that river turned to rapids that sucked us along until we spilled out in Jerusalem yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m., our gear strewn around the apartment which, hopefully soon, will feel like our new home. For all the twists and turns in Rosie's fate - which more than once threatened to leave her behind - things somehow worked out in the end, and we all arrived intact, with nothing lost, so far as we can tell, from amongst our 16 pieces of luggage all weighed to within an ounce of their 50 and 20 pound maximums; four fully packed hockey bags, two duffles, one full sized suitcase, ... read more