Our visit to Jaffa today was not the way I like to go to Jaffa. I prefer wandering through the market, trying on jewelry, buying some shoes, talking to people, having a leisurely lunch, and then vegetables and home. But it’s too hot. And we only went there because Ezi got a notice that a package awaited him – not at the usual pickup points in our neighbhood, but in a grocery in Jaffa. Ezi couldn’t even figure out what he had ordered so he wanted to race there as soon as possible. It turned out to be a knife-sharpening machine that excited him and made him want to race home. I barely managed to get myself to Abulafia and get picked up to go home.