A day with Lise and Yoni

We started the day with a delicious breakfast of bagel and lox, fresh fruit, and some of the datenut loaf we had brought with us.Yoni and I then went to the post office to pick up a new camera he had ordered, and along the way he gave me a good education on the nature of cameras and how they work. We also swapped hitchhiking stories including one where he and a friend had been stripped naked and had guns pointed at their heads by the men who picked them up. The men eventually left and Yoni and his friend made their way to the highway where two women had eventually turned their car around to come back and pick them up and take them to a police station. Now that's a couple of gutsy women! My hitchhiking stories were a lot more routine - thank heaven!
The four of us, and for a good while just the three of us because Elise needed to just lie down and rest, spent most of the day just talking together and it was  very pleasant and relaxing. This was the most time that Elise and I had ever spent with Lise and Yoni, and it was a pleasure to get to know them better.

                                                        Valley of Fire outside Las Vegas, Milt and Yoni


At around 4:30, Yoni drove Elise and me out to the Valley of Fire, which is just one more area of beautiful red and brown mountains carved by nature into magnificent sculptures - a bit like a modern nonrepresentative art version of Mt. Rushmore. The view was especially beautiful at sunset, which is when we were there. We stopped at one point and took a short walk out onto the desert toward the mountain range in the distance. Coming back we saw another bridal couple taking pictures. It seems that in spite of all the difficulty people have staying married, lots of them are still giving it a try. It was a fairly long drive and we didn't get back until well after 8:00.


                                             Valley of Fire outside Las Vegas


While we were gone, Lise prepared a delicious chicken dinner of which I ate a large portion since I intended to fast the next day and thus observe at least some aspect of Yom Kippur.

It had been a full day, and we called it a night shortly after our late dinner.