Remember

Another day of food and relatives. I decided to skip the breakfast buffet this morning and what a good idea. Another day of sunshine as we headed north to temple BJBE, in Deerfield. This is the large synagogue where Terry and Marilyn are very active members. It is a beautiful building and boasts 1100 families as members. We went on a tour seeing their large sanctuary, religious school wing and large open spaces for seating, talking and contemplating. We were very impressed with a long wall of murals tracing the complete history of the Jewish people from the biblical beginning to the founding of Israel.

Then it was time to eat at another great deli restaurant. Max and Benny's is a large place with an equally large menu. When the bread basket came I was  salivating and decided on the egg challah roll topped with crisp onions. So good with butter that I had two. Also had thick mushroom barley soup and a scoop of whitefish salad.

Now it was time to visit the Holocaust Museum in Skokie. The cousins have a friend who is a docent and she took us on a guided tour pointing out the highlights. The museum is impressive with interesting exhibits and some local interest about the Nazi march on Skokie which directly led to this museum being built. Glad that we were able to come here and another reminder of what cruelty can exist in our world.

On a happier note we went out to dinner again! Tonight it is deep dish Chicago pizza at Lou Malnati's in Skokie. The pizza was pre-ordered so we didn't have to wait too long. Since I do not eat pizza, I had a buffalo chicken salad. Good, but quite spicy. They cleverly put watermelon cubes in the salad which calms the sauce and was really good. Brian went to visit two college friends tonight so just the old folks had dinner and then went back to Marilyn's for dessert and more visiting.