Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Weekend retreat

The retreat was at Mutianyu, a nearby section of the great wall. We had outdoor services Friday night and Saturday morning and night as well as an outdoor Torah trup (singing) lesson. We didn't actually have services on the wall itself, but many people hiked over and then back at some point during the day.

One of the fun things about this weekend is how many children attended. Here are some of the girls sitting around after dinner Friday night.
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And here is Tovina coveting Sophia's hair. There was a hair pulling incident at one point and we tried to explain that Tovina was 1) unaware that she was pulling because babies don't always know what they are doing and 2) just jealous.

Gabrielle and Tovina are involved in some serious Torah study.

Judy and Tovina ignoring some serious Torah study.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How many times did you have to go around the traffic circle before you got to Mutianyu?

ShamrockJews said...

That was the advantage of going on the group bus - we were able to sit back and just make fun of the driver as he kept getting off and on the highway because he thought he was at the right place, er... maybe the next exit, er... maybe....

much easier than last time