The highlight of this week is a weekend trip to Jerusalem. I'm conveniently managing to pack plenty of social events into one weekend. The first was a wedding I attended last night in which the sister of one my yeshiva classmates got married. There were so many people from Tzfat who came to this wedding that approximately half of the passengers on my bus ride to Jerusalem were going to the same wedding.

I brought along my fire poi and related parapheralia and did three rounds of dancing, which was quite well received. And the wedding hall staff didn't even complain at all about this admittedly somewhat risky form of entertainment. I was far from the only specially-skilled performer to show off last night, though. There were also a couple break-dancers, just when I thought the art had been lost in the mists of the eighties. Particularly impressive to me was a graceful young man who has a talent for balancing things on his head and held in his mouth. He did the relatively cliché wine-bottle-on-the-head routine, but also presented more interesting feats, such as an upside-down chair held in his mouth with an identical chair perched atop it, its legs resting on the bottom of the upturned chair's legs. Especially impressive was how he balanced three one-liter Pepsi bottles on top of each other.

Last night I slept at the apartment of one of my older Nachlaot friends, Alex Margolin, whom I hadn't seen since his wedding a bit over a year ago. It's been nice catching up with him and his wife Lisa last night and this morning. Tonight, I'll be having dinner at Orit Gil's, and tomorrow I'll be eating lunch at Moshe's (this is the same Moshe I hosted a couple weeks ago). After lunch, I'll head over to visit with Seth and Rachel until the end of Shabbos. It's good to be making the rounds.