Shalom, Nanoo Nanoo, and Have a Nice Trip!

By the time you read this, Renee will be in the Holy Land, and I'm not talking about the Barneys outlet sale, I'm talking the Big I, Israel, or "H to the Izzay," as members of the Lost Tribe--though not the ones on ABC--might say. She left last night on a tightly secured El Al flight to Tel Aviv, which she barely got on thanks to those fancy nail clippers.

Now many of you might be scratching your heads thinking, "Hey, wait, I thought they were trying to clear the Jews out of Israel these days, not bring more in." And you're not wrong. You're probably a militant Zionist, but you're not wrong. Well, it turns out that Renee, God love her, said, "to hell with politics, terrorists and all those who aren't quite sure how to wrap a head scarf properly, this girl needs her a vacation!" So off she went.

What does this mean for you, dear reader? Well, for the next 10 days-ish, it's likely to mean a lot more postings by this R half of the R&R equation. WAIT!!! Don't leave yet, muttering to yourself "well, now here's a blog I can skip till mid-October." See that's the super sneaky part. C'mon, you have to realize we Jewish girls are an especially wily bunch. So though I'll be providing more daily brain farts for the next while, you should keep checking back because Renee will be doing posts from the road when the mood strikes. She even bought herself a digital camera so she could provide you with photographic evidence of her vacation activities ("Here I am covered in Dead Sea mud!" and "Here I am running from an airborne rock!")

Frankly, this blog only promises to get more exciting. So keep coming back, have a falafel in honor of Renee and pray that she meets a nice Jewish boy packing heat while she's over there.