April 05, 2004
I found the afikomen!
Just got back from a great seder! I did find the afikomen* (and ransomed it back to Harold for $5) I had a great time but ate way too much (including a bit too much of my own chocolate heath bar matza stuff)
The food was fabulous -- includiing a Sephardic Haroset (with apricots maybe?) which was just amazing, and it was a great group. We could have used some transliterated lyrics to Dayenu, but Margaret managed to lead us from the Hebrew.
The finger puppets of the four questions were a big hit! (thanks Mom for sending them and the bag of plagues!)
I finally got to see my cousins Sasha and Osha who live here in Santa Cruz -- and meet their grandmother.
Here's me with Annie, Margaret, Harold (who lead) and Alan
The table was beautiful, and the silverware said "FN" for Felicia Newman -- Aunt Felicia of the famous seders!!
* For those of you new to this, the afikomen is a special piece of matzoh which is broken in half at the beginning of the Seder and hidden. All the "kids" get to search the house for the piece during dinner, and it has to be found before the end of the Haggadah (the book telling the Passover story that is read during the seder) can be read after dinner (and everyone can get dessert).