Our new neighbors

This week, on Tuesday, we took a cake and walked over to meet our new next-door neighbors. They bought the house about the time that we bought ours, but they only made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) from England a month or 2 ago. They'd had been renting the house out, first to Zion, the builder, and then to another family (who have now rented another house in our complex of 5 houses here). They are Shimon and Patricia, and they are really nice people.

They had bought a ping-pong table that needed to be assembled, and Shimon asked us if we could help. We agreed, so, on Wednesday afternoon we went over there again and began work on it. It's quite complicated, but the directions (which are entirely in pictures) are not too difficult to follow, and we made pretty good process. We didn't have time to finish, though. We had planned to work on it more on Thursday, but David was not feeling too well (at least partly due to the physical work from the day before), so we'll work on it more on Monday (on Sunday, we have an appointment with David's psychiatrist at Rambam, in Haifa).