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Pictures from family picnic

8 MM old movies

It's a new year, hopefully everybody had a nice holiday. I just cranked up my father's old 8 MM projector and viewed movies from when Amy, Susan and I were babies. This was the first time Mike and Matt have seen their grandfather Marvin. They were amazed at how the projector worked an what we had to do to film, quite a difference from today's digital age ! I am in the midst of converting these to DVD, if anybody knows of a place let me know

Andrew

LOBEL FAMILY Picnic..Make sure you make reservations !

Hello to all the Family,

We are looking forward to the Family Picnic June 27th starting at noon. Thanks to Diane and Ruthie and their excellent ideas, I called a local hotel today to try and book a block of rooms. The hotel is totally booked! Seems there is a major sports event in the area that weekend and almost everything is sold out already. Marian and Doug ran into BIG PROBLEMS with this same event - was that last year Marian?

Anyway, I have found a hotel with rooms and ask everyone who even remotely might possibly need a hotel room to book this place TODAY.

Hyatt Place, Mt Laurel, NJ 856 840 0770. The rate I saw online was 152.00

Debbie and Andy - you guys make sure you have a place too.

And if you can think of someone not on this email - please forward it?

Love
Eileen

News from Diane Lobel

Sorry, been busy with life, very few updates. Here is some tips from Diane. Also the family picnic has been scheduled for Saturday, June 27th SAVE THE DATE!!!

Check this out, it's CRAZY!

Go to restaurants.com, click on $25 certificates for $10 box, enter your zip code and it comes up with offers local to you. Apparently they change each month. Some certificates are $25 for $10, some are $10 on sale for $3 right now. Some are $100 for $40. ....THE THING IT DOESN'T TELL YOU IS...they are on sale for 80% off, don't know if they always are, but they are right now...when you get to the check out, where it asks for discount code enter "MENU" and off comes 80%!Be sure to click on the radio button beside each offer and read the exclusions like minimum, which changes with the dollar amount, or restrictions such as no alcohol included, or two entree minimum.I got a few $10 certificates for places near work for 60 cents each, I got a $25 gift certificate for a local restaurant for $2 ($35 min) and I got a $100 gift certificate for $8!, it does have a $200 minimum, that's how I learned the radio button thing. You print these out yourself, I have a friend who has used them and told me about this.Let me know if you get any!

Collage from the Livingston, Schwartz & Olivo family 2008 gathering

The Holiday included a private Pentagon tour, football/basketball games with the kids, lots of gifts, a trip to Annapolis to watch our cousin Luke play hockey for the Little Flyers, a trip to Md.'s best crab house, Cantler's, turkey smoking, great conversation on solving the world's problems (thank you Obama), lots of appetizers & desserts, Cheering the Eagles to victory over the Dallas Cowgirls, a trip on the DC metro for all 15 of us. Thanks to the Schwartz family (amy, sarah & jason), Grandma from Philly, The Olivo's (Skinny Joe, Sue, Luke & the twins Robert and Anthony), Mr. Magoo (grandpa Don & eric), Taz (Matty's friend from Mclean, VA and a bunch of kids from the neighborhood !

From Anita Burgis - Very Funny

As a general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on which you must starve and days on which you must overeat. Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year, based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are ritually purified, you definitely aren't. Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring light snacking.Note: Unlike Christians, who simply attend church on special days (e.g. Ash Wednesday), on Jewish holidays most Jews take the whole day off. This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more stressed out.

The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:
Rosh Hashanah ------- Feast
Tzom Gedalia ----------- Fast
Yom Kippur -------------- More fasting
Sukkot -------------------- Feast for a week +
Hashanah Rabbah ---- More feasting
Simchat Torah --------- Keep right on feasting
Month of Heshvan ----- No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on yourself.
Hanukkah ---------------- Eat potato pancakes
Tenth of Tevet --------- Do not eat potato pancakes
Tu B'Shevat ------------ Feast
Fast of Esther --------- Fast
Purim --------------------- Eat pastry
Passover ---------------- Do not eat pastry for a week
Shavuot ------------------ Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes, etc.)
17th of Tammuz -------- Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)
Tish B'Av ----------------- Serious fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes)
Month of Elul ------------ End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating Disorders before High

Holidays arrive again.

There are many forms of Judaism:Cardiac Judaism ---------- in my heart I am a Jew.
Gastronomic Judaism --- we eat Jewish foods.
Pocketbook Judaism ----- I give to Jewish causes.
Drop-off Judaism --------- drop the kids off at Sunday School; go out to breakfast.
Twice a Year Judaism -- attend service Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

You know you grew up Jewish when: You did not respond to the teacher calling roll on the first day of school because you thought your name was "Princess".

You've had at least one female relative who drew eyebrows on her face that were always asymmetrical.

You spent your entire childhood thinking that everyone calls roast beef "brisket."

Your family dog responds to complaints uttered in Yiddish.

Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your grandparents.

You've experienced the phenomena of 50 people fitting into a 10-foot-wide dining room hitting
each other with plastic plates & forks trying to get to a deli tray.

You thought pasta was the stuff used exclusively for kugel and kasha with bowties.

You watched Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan every Sunday night.

You were as tall as your grandmother by age seven.

You never knew anyone whose last name didn't end in one of 6 standard suffixes (-man,-witz, -berg, -stein, -blatt or -baum).

You grew up and were surprised to find out that wine doesn't always taste like year-old cranberry sauce.

You can look at gefilte fish without turning green.

You grew up thinking there was a fish called lox.

You can understand some Yiddish but you can't speak it.

You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly in context, yet you don't exactly know what they mean. Is that Kenahurra or is that kaninehurra?.

You have at least one ancestor who is related to your spouse's ancestor.

You grew up thinking it was normal for someone to shout "Are you okay? Are you okay?" through the bathroom door if you were in there for longer than 3 minutes.

You have at least six male relatives named Michael or David.

Your grandparent's furniture smelled like mothballs, was covered in plastic and was as comfortable as sitting on sandpaper.