On Friday, Kathie successfully walked to the van using a walker with some assistance from Jenny, her therapist at TIRR.  You can see the picture of Kathie sitting in the back of her Mazda van after she walked to it and opened the back.  Unfortunately, she did not have the strength to lift her wheelchair on to the van.  But she was able to walk with her walker around the car to the driver's seat and get in with her new prosthesis. (See Kathie in the picture in the driver's seat with her hand controls installed and ready to go!). 

Unfortunately her left prosthesis kept coming off.  This is normal.  We have to go back to the prosthesist on Monday or Tuesday and get that problem adjusted.  Fitting of the prosthesis is most important as it is suction to the leg stump and it must fit perfectly or it will fall off and cause an amputee to get injured.  Kathie has a wonderful prosthesist and I'm sure he will do his best to fit her well.

Friday evening we went to orthodox Jewish services at the Chabad House where we are staying.  Kathie was just a visitor as she is Catholic (she went to church this morning in fact).  But she is a good sport.  It was her first experience of an orthodox service where the women and men are separated by a wall.  She complained about not being able to see all the "cute men!"

After services, the Rabbi invited us back to his house for dinner.  The dinner was wonderful with all the traditional prayers and songs.  But there was a surprise.  First we said the blessing on the bread and the wine.  The Jewish bread or challa was homemade and sprinkled with salt, poppy and sesame seeds.  It was the most delicious challa I've ever tasted!  The Rabbi had seven of his nine children at the table with his wife and nine guests including Kathie and me.  He poured the wine into what looked like a pure silver server that poured twelve cups of wine at once!

Then they served fresh trout stuffed with squash and carrots (with the head on).  After we ate the delicious fish, we thought that was it.  But that was the surprise, it was just the appetizer.  The next course was homemade matzo ball soup, then fresh green beans, asparagus, a wonderful eggplant casserole and then baked chicken.  After that they served homemade apple struddle a la mode.

Saturday night we went to Kenny and Ziggy's deli for dinner and wonderful desert followed by going to the Laugh Stop comedy club with some friends we knew from Midland who got transferred with Marathon Oil: Don, Sue and Brian Hall.  We had a great time.  Sunday I met my cousin, Michael at the Buffalo Grill for breakfast.  He too is married to a Catholic girl, Ilene.  Both of them are attorneys at the top of their game.  Both are type A personalities.  Ilene took Kathie to church this morning and Michael and I met them afterwards for breakfast.  After that I spent the day catching up on work for Fasken Oil and Ranch where I work.