Number 8: Reut Visits. Some events don’t get blogged about. This is one of those occasions, though looking back I’m a bit surprised I never mentioned it. Our good friend in Italy, Lamberto, has a sister-in-law named Reut Cohen who was days away from her mandatory service in the Israeli army. She wanted to brush up on her english beforehand, so she contacted her friends in the States to set up some visits. We hosted her for a week in September.
Reut’s english is already pretty good. Hallie and Travis absolutely adored her. We enjoyed visiting with her and learning about different cultures. She seemed to be very happy here, which of course made us happy, though Raleigh isn’t as exciting as New York or DC. Reut didn’t have the benefit of a car while she was here, which severely limits what she could do during the day. I never gave much thought to how important a car is to life in Raleigh before she came to visit.