Dear Blog, How have you been?

I wrote a long letter to you on the flight over here, but I wrote it on a napkin and then promptly threw the napkin out with my empty diet coke can. But the basic point of it was how I’m on a long flight and I’m short on paper. Nothing crazy. I was on a flight, direct, from LAX to Ben Gurion. That’s about 14 hours. We landed at about 2:30, went through customs, gathered our luggage, and went to rent a car. Which we did. Now it’s about 4:00. The wedding starts at 7:30. So waht to do? Go to our place of residence? Go eat something? Shower? Sleep? So we went to eat something. Then we went to our new home. I was supposed to go to sleep. But of course, just because I just got off a long flight, and I have a wedding in two hours, I could not fall asleep. So I got ready for the wedding, my ride would be here in about an hour and a half. So I didn’t rush. I’m ready now. Now what? I have an hour till I have to be ready. Yip. You guessed it. I fell asleep. In my suit. And my hat. Then we went to the wedding, my first Israeli gig. MushMush was the keyboardist. The one man band man. It was great. It was good fun. I was out of energy at the beginning of the wedding, and when it was over, but while we were going, it was rock and/or roll. Then we went home to go to sleep for serious.

Oh, I forgot to tell you about my days, leading up to this trip.

Ok, Shabbos I spent in Scottsdale, AZ, together with Sha-rone Kushnir, a good friend of mine and a phenominal pianist.  And when I say phenominal, I don’t mean mediocre. I mean phenominal. We did a show together, him and me, Motzei Shabbos. Then we flew back to LA and did a show together with Benny Marcus, Shaya Leiberman, Rosy, Rabbi M. D. Bryski and my brother Eli. It was beautiful. Then the next night my cousin got married to Chaky. What a party that was! Mazal Tov on that, guys. Then it was off to Israel, to that wedding Wednesday night. Thursday we went to Yerushalayim to see Yossi Berger at a wedding. And about a block away from there, a very bad bad man walked into a Yeshiva and opened fire, killing 8 Yeshiva Bochurim, may G-d avenge their blood as only He knows how to.

Shabbos.

Shabbos we spent at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Leibaleh Lipsker, the world renown one man band and his wife. We spoke about music, with me pretending like I knew what I was talking about. Motzei Shabbos we did a dinner together in Bnei Brak. It was very nice. We have a wedding together tonight.

After the dinner, we went to say Mazal Tov to Dedi, who was celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of his son. While we were looking for parking we bumped into Moshe Laufer. So we shmoozed for a liitle bit, parked, went upstairs, said hello to Dedi, said hello to Amiran Dvir, shmoozed some more with Moshe Laufer, and went home. Today we are going to take care of some business in Yerushalayim, then we need to come back and get ready for a wedding tonight in Rishon Letzion, go to the wedding, rock out, and go to the airport to get to New York for a wedding tomorrow night. Yes, I am doing a lot of praying, that my youth not fail me now, amen.

OK, gotta run. And by the way, when I say we, as in We did this or We did that, I am usually referring to myself and my Israel Manager, Davidi, who put this whole trip together. Thank you Davidi.

Chow.