Shabbat with a lot of the cousins was super fun. It started off on Friday with wings and (thank you Maalot Zacks') beer. Jonah was very excited about a game where you throw a burrito at someone, and we were planning on playing it that night. Until - we got back from Shul and saw that there was only one burrito left in the box. Someone had taken burrito #1. Throughout dinner we searched for it, but to no avail.
Dinner was great, and favorite tunes such as Kah Echsof filled the room. Towards the end of dinner, the burrito was found. Hadar had ripped the eyes off the first one, but what mattered more was having both. The burrito was found in Eitan's bike, in the room Naftali and Ephraim were sleeping in. Make your own judgement about who you think stole the burrito. After dinner, there were lots of games being played, including Set, CodeNames, among others.
But the real battle of the night was the impromptu mini golf game. See, David had given Daniel a toilet soccer game at one of the Chanukah gift giving games, but it had never been opened until that night, when Jonah, Sammy, Naftali, and Daniel battled it out. Each kept score on a different toy. Daniel - on the clock on the toy kitchen. Naftali - on an abacus. Sammy - on fraction cards. Jonah - on a rings toy. Between each of the nine holes, the starting points were moved, as well as the obstacles. Naftali began the game with a hole-in-one, but it was Jonah who had the lead for the first 7 holes. At this point, there were no other games being played, so everyone's attention was on this important mini golf game. In the second to last hole, Daniel grabbed his first lead of the day. He would hold on to win it in the last round, beating Jonah and Sammy by just one putt, and Naftali by only 3. What an evening.
The next day, all the boys were in Shul by 8:30. After what seemed like a long service to some of the boys, we headed over to Arye and Aviva for Kiddush and lunch. The food was delicious, the company even better. After lunch we headed back to Daniel and Shifra's for more games. As Shabbat was running out, Daniel challenged everyone to build a train set using all of the train pieces they had. It was unsuccessful, as we couldn't get them all to fit with each other. The problem was there was no one managing it, rather everyone was too focused on their own.
After Maariv, there was perhaps the most musical Havdala I had ever been part of. Every single person, had an instrument, ranging from Guitars to ukuleles, from shaking toys to harmonica toys. Once Havdala ended, it quickly shifted into wedding music and of course the classic Sha Sha Shavua Tov!
Thank you to Daniel, Shifra, Avigail, Ephraim, Nava, Charlie, Naftali, Chanalana, Jonah, Nachala, Aura, Sammy, Kayla (Eitan and Hadar) for attending. Thanks to Arye and Aviva for hosting lunch. Those who were unable to attend were certainly missed.
What a special shabbat.
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