I played with BSM in the morning, then headed over to Malcha Mall to meet my roommate from college, who's in Yerushalayim for a conference. We had lunch, and I really enjoyed seeing her. As long as I was at the mall, Husbinator got me to buy sunglasses: a useful thing to own as a driver in any country, and doubly so in this one. Thanks, Husbinator!
The real excitement of the mall, though, (after Roommate, of course) was what in Hebrew is called a .פעולטון I think it's a gymboree in English, but I'm really not sure. Basically, there's an area of the floor covered in mats and surrounded by blocks of the same material. In this "ring" are a bunch of padded stuff to roll around and climb on and crawl through. BSM had a blast, especially with the padded slide whose steps he could climb and whose ramp he could climb down, and with a cylinder over which he rolled time and time again, smashing into the floor mats and laughing each time.
I also learned that the oddly named "Operation Protective Edge" which Israel is carrying out right now is actually a terrible translation of "מבצע צוק איתן": "Operation Mighty Cliff" is how most English speakers would have translated that one...
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