Israel- Days 3 and 4.

In a nutshell:

Friday was spent travelling to Tel Aviv with Aliza's cousin. We poked around an art fair, and did a little shopping, then headed to Aliza's aunt and uncle for Shabbat.

Shabbat was really nice. We stayed with Aliza's aunt and uncle, and her cousins were all in town, so we got to meet them as well. Also, toddlers are cute no matter what language they speak. :-)

Saturday night was spent running round Tel Aviv looking for a place to eat, and watching cars get towed, which led to two realizations:

-It's about as hard to find an open Kosher restaurant at 11:30 on a Satuday night in Tel Aviv as it is in Boston.

-Tel Aviv has the coolest tow trucks ever. They're basically flatbed trucks with sideways-facing forklifts that scoop up improperly parked cars in 15 seconds flat. Over the course of 15 minutes, the same two trucks came by 3-4 times.

Israel- Days 3 and 4.

In a nutshell:

Friday was spent travelling to Tel Aviv with Aliza's cousin. We poked around an art fair, and did a little shopping, then headed to Aliza's aunt and uncle for Shabbat.

Shabbat was really nice. We stayed with Aliza's aunt and uncle, and her cousins were all in town, so we got to meet them as well. Also, toddlers are cute no matter what language they speak. :-)

Saturday night was spent running round Tel Aviv looking for a place to eat, and watching cars get towed, which led to two realizations:

-It's about as hard to find an open Kosher restaurant at 11:30 on a Satuday night in Tel Aviv as it is in Boston.

-Tel Aviv has the coolest tow trucks ever. They're basically flatbed trucks with sideways-facing forklifts that scoop up improperly parked cars in 15 seconds flat. Over the course of 15 minutes, the same two trucks came by 3-4 times.

Israel- Day 5 Recap

Day five has been lots of fun.

We went from Aliza's aunt and uncle's place over toTel Aviv to see Israel's Independence hall, and take a brief tour. (Not nearly as old-timey as things in the US, but still fun.)

After a break for lunch, we went to the Palmach Museum, which was really interesting, and really well organized. I don't remember much of what I learned about Israel's founding, so this was a good refresher.

After that, we headed back to Jerusalem, had dinner with mick_hale, his wife Y, and their wee twins, then checked back into our hotel. Later in the evening we met up with abacaximamao, an old high school friend of mine who's in Israel for the year, and had coffee/drinks/dessert.

Unexpected find of the day- I successfully found a Hebrew translation of John Scalzi's Old Man's War, aka Milchemet HaAdam HaZaken. It should be fun to read.

Up eventually- a list of things that have changed since I was here last, as well as some things that haven't.

Israel- Day 5 Recap

Day five has been lots of fun.

We went from Aliza's aunt and uncle's place over toTel Aviv to see Israel's Independence hall, and take a brief tour. (Not nearly as old-timey as things in the US, but still fun.)

After a break for lunch, we went to the Palmach Museum, which was really interesting, and really well organized. I don't remember much of what I learned about Israel's founding, so this was a good refresher.

After that, we headed back to Jerusalem, had dinner with mick_hale, his wife Y, and their wee twins, then checked back into our hotel. Later in the evening we met up with abacaximamao, an old high school friend of mine who's in Israel for the year, and had coffee/drinks/dessert.

Unexpected find of the day- I successfully found a Hebrew translation of John Scalzi's Old Man's War, aka Milchemet HaAdam HaZaken. It should be fun to read.

Up eventually- a list of things that have changed since I was here last, as well as some things that haven't.