Friday, June 29, 2012

This morning Elizabeth had to go to her hospital for some more paperwork.  We headed up on the subway, I jumped off to unload stuff at our apartment while she went on to the hospital.  Then I walked the mile or so from our apartment to the hospital to meet up with her.  On the way over I had an orthodox jewish guy(side curls) in a truck at a stop light ask me for directions, of course I was no help.  Then he handed me some jewish pamphlet on juadism vs zionism.  I took it as him believing me to be jewish.  At the hospital Elizabeth and I ran into a guy sporting a University of Oregon badge lanyard and a green and yellow tie, so of course Elizabeth had to chat him up.  It was great to meet somebody else there that knew where we were coming from.  After the hospital we spent the rest of the day, picking up household goods and exploring.  This afternoon we did get to enjoy a great example of the healthy respect people have here for one another.  A young teenage couple was crossing the street, when they weren't supposed to be, and a car pulled up on them.  So, the girl sayed some nasty stuff to the middle aged couple in the car.  When the lady in the car spouted back at the young girl, the girl flipped them off, much to her boyfriends dismay.  The car pulled around the corner, and the lady got out and followed the young couple down the street exchanging verbal insults.  As we caught up to the scene the man driving the car was out in the street with his car parked in traffic on a busy arterial.  The lady finally walked back, still grumbling, her husband trying to figure out what she was doing, and the guy next to us added his own commentary on the situation.  Also great, this evening we watched three guys tearing down another busy street on two stroke dirt bikes.  Two of them were doing wheelies, and none of them had helmets on.  Oh this is going to be a great experience.  I love Elizabeth. 

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