Eitan Stiva and the crew are splashing down even as I write and I imagine it is as exciting to every Israeli as it is my this family.  Ezi is already imagining himself in space. 

And just as we are admiring the egressing of the capsule, the company that is supposed to enable a VIP boarding for us at 4 this morning just cancelled because they’re busy.  We had paid a lot of money for this VIP service because I have problems standing in lines, and now we’ve got to get up at 2:30.  Talk about progress.  I’m watching the treatment the astronauts are getting and wishing there was that kind of progress for the simple folk.