Madd Max Has A Post-Bat-Brunch

More games.

More convo.

More friends.

Slappy Has Another Brunch

With Jess.  At Bebe's.  That's quite a breakfast crepe.

Madd Max Celebrate Elizabeth's Bat Mitzvah

Elizabeth.

Her fam.

The MEME Gang.

Jess arrived fresh off the plane (and a quick shower) from Greece, just in time for the start of the ceremony.

Elizabeth played and sang.

And was joined by her family.

The greeting after was divine.

Doubling fisting Shirley Temples during cocktail hour.

Hava Nigelah!!

And then it was time for the chair lift.

Her sisters were not left out.

Holla!

A little dance.

Good times for all.

Even Sam, photographing from behind a hedge.

And the breaking of the challah, which Max had the honor of making.

Dinner time with friends,

And fam.

Great tables with great people.

And this cake by Marissa.

A father-daughter dance.

With lots of fathers and daughters.

Each of the MEME gang gave a speech.

Look at all those people who made those other people.

And finally, some evening dancing.

Party's over!

Madd Max Arrives Home

With the fam already at Elizabeth's Bat Mitzvah, the house was empty, but there was this as soon as Jess walked in the front door.

Madd Max Has A Last Day In Greece

Last morning of work in Athens.

A fabulous last meal - this was course 1 of 17.

And finally - on the plane back home.  Very likely Jess' last international first class flight.  Hizzah!

Madd Max Heads To A Pre-Bat-Dinner

Tacos with friends.

These friends.

Celebrating this girl and her family.

With some games.

And convo.

They're pretty great.

Madd Max See Rigoletto

At the Odeion of Herodea Atticus at the bottom of the Acropolis.  The theater was amazing.

The opera was the most entertaining opera Jess has ever sat thru, the classic Italian piece reconceived in a 1980s mafia setting, that involved 50 oversized Marlon Brando heads and a furry pick cow getting grinded on by a man in a gold speedo.  And that was just the first Act.