Last Wednesday was my birthday, and for the second year in a row, I was truly thankful for the kindness of new friends to make it a special day.
After work, several of us from HCEF went out to the land where Salim's family is building a new house and has recently planted fruit trees of just about every kind.
Mostly, the apricots were ripe, so we picked a whole bunch of them. I'd never had fresh apricots before, but boy are they delicious!
We also got some of the tiniest apples I've ever seen. They taste like a regular one, but they're so small.
They are also growing a few olive trees, which have really special meaning to Christians in this area. Tiny olives are so cute, too bad I don't care for them much once they grow up.
Here's Salim's father, Mr. Al Ama. He seemed like he would get along very well with my dad, especially when he started talking about how he hates the birds eating their fruit!
In all, it was a great day. Thanks to so many of you for the birthday wishes.
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