Perfect gift for my stepdaughter's ordination as a Reform rabbi!

[CTyankee]

Thanks to the great suggestions I got here I have finally selected the following item: http://www.traditionsjewishgifts.com/ZTFLORALBAG.html

This talit bag is very feminine and quite pretty. I am selecting the one with violet flowers...

Thanks to all for some terrific suggestions!

[elleng]

1. LOVELY,

and CONGRATS to ALL, yank!



SHALOM!!!

[CTyankee]

2. Thanks! We are over the moon about her ordination and can't wait to get there...

I'll be traveling to London the week after my grandson Dante and his mom arrive in Boston for a great long weekend. So I'm busy for 3 weekends end to end!

Hope you and yours are fine!

[elleng]

3. WOW, you ARE busy!

What planning to do in London?

[CTyankee]

4. It's a Road Scholar program, mostly the history of London! I am taking one whole day off

however, to visit the national Gallery. I'll give myself over to the history for the rest of the trip! It sounds like a lot of fun...haven't been there since I was a kid of 16 so things have REALLY changed!

[elleng]

5. GREAT!

Spent MANY hours at the national gallery during my college semesters there, and that's where I FIRST saw

[CTyankee]

6. Oooh, how gorgeous! This is just one of a LONG list I have prepared to view there...

I consulted a book entitled "The Companion Guide to the National Gallery" and developed an arms length list of paintings to see! It was EPIC how many of the world's greatest paintings are on that list!

It is a day's project (with several rests in between).

[elleng]

7. Yes its a day's project, with TEA breaks in between!

AND St. Martin in the Fields!!!

I don't know which if any of the water lilies are amongst the permanent collection. Its a FABULOUS place, and in fact may have been my first introduction to person-to-person culture that year (helped of course by introduction by my family's own collection and library.)

[CTyankee]

8. Yes! You had that fabulous connection with your family's business. Oh, that is so great!

[elleng]

9. Do you know where you'll be staying?

I used to stay at a B&B on the Edgeware Road!

[CTyankee]

10. Yep. It's a hotel chain called Guoman Tower. It is at the Tower Bridge.

so I figure it is at the Easternmost section of London and I would have to find my way (hopefully by bus) across to Trafalgar Square. I am sure the hotel concierge will help me out...

[question everything]

11. Beautiful. And congretulations to all (nt)

[CTyankee]

12. Thank you! We are so proud!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Congratulations!! Very cool!!

[CTyankee]

14. Thanks! She liked it a lot...