I owe you a debt from last time. I entered the parking lot with the guy who said, "don't worry mister, it will all be OK" and forgot to mention the way out... well not a big story, there was no one on the way out, i just exited, it is possible this was a free parking lot, but not likely, not with a guard at the gate, but no worries, i paid exactly what they asked me.
a better story is what happen to my sister at the pestigal (annual Hanukkah shows for kids with all the kids celebrities) she went with my nieces and nephew, during the show, little eilon, age 4 had a voluntary accident (who wants to go all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the show?), but he was sitting on my sisters lap!. she asked him if he went and he just said yes, and probably kept staring at the show. after he was changed he refused to sit again on her lap, why? well. he said, she is wet!
last Tuesday we went for an afternoon in jerusalem. the city is renovated with a light train and several more buildings and looks good, and the old town always looks great. we entered from the jaffa gate and toured the market listening to some old town stories from my dead, we toured the main christian church- i always forget its name and the western wall followed by a trip to the machane yehuda for a nice meal of Pargiot (chicklet). there are no photos of the old city this time, camera was left at home.
Wednesday was an unplanned day, we went to the Israel museum in tel aviv for an exhibit of winning photography from all around the globe in the past year with many powerful tragic photos, then we ate yummi fish (denis) at the marina. the attraction this day was sailing. My mom is taking a yacht sailing course, this week was a practice sail from herzelia to Tel aviv and back. this is my first sail on a true sailing yacht, I was enjoying my self, taking photos of captain mom steering, connecting ropes etc.. the small ship bounces up and down and a non stormy sea, its very easy to fall overboard. now she can't say, hey don't do that, its dangerous, I have a counter argument!. 4 hour sailing with lots of turns and twist and no sea sickness and great views of Tel Aviv. when we returned to the marina, we saw lots of ambulances , fire department and police and people with robes walking out and later found out that a spa burnt down near-by with 1 smoke inhaling death.
on Thursday we headed north for a 3 day spa hotel. this is not my usual hangout, but my friends went and I joined them. on the way after a hike of about 45 meters I enjoyed a Shwarma, so good. we got stuck in traffic after cop delay for a ticket (lucky i wasn't driving); from a left single lane turning to a 2 lane road, first go the the left, then the right!. it took us almost 4 hours to get there, to zfat. i tried to buy some schnapps but i can't find it here. we brought an almost empty bottle of apple schnapps from home which felt strong to me. the hotel looked nice with lots of tea spots, located on the mountain with nice views- this is the start of a 3 day food fest, not that the proceeding days were any less (or the days after....) in between there were lots of laughs, pool hot tub, Turkish bath, sauna and interesting workshops on diet, reiki, chakras, meridiens, meditation. i especially liked the chackras workshop, after learning about the 7 chakras and as we meditated, i fell a sleep. i guess i am one with my chakras. we also played tennis for a few hours and ran a bit to not nearly enough to offset the food. on one morning we had fresh juice, well, we had fresh fruit and a a juicer, amazing oranges, great sweet potatoes (not in the juice) and jachnoon on Saturday.
on the way back after the 3 spa days we stopped at the choclatino - since we desperately needed more calories- the white chocolate drink was sublime. unfortunately i tasted someone Else's drink that had just a bit of coffee in in, ruined my taste buds. on the way back with some but less traffic we played- guess the 80 games- song and performer . playing this game with Amit feels like soccer with messi. he knows them all. so we began changing the rules. he and only he gets points deducted for mistakes and we were very partial to the correctness - for example -the song - the winner takes it all by Abba- for us it would be enough to say- the winner, or takes it all, but he would have to say the whole thing exactly- no forgiveness. after all that, we still got creamed by the man who probably knows all band member of cream, but still fun.
later that night we sat with the family and debated a bit of politics, elections are coming. beer as you know is the source and solution to all of life's problem (H. Simpson)- and when my mom handed shai (the friend, not the brother) a beer, something went wrong in the beer pass (this was before drinking it) and it fell on the big glass Coffey table, breaking it into 2 pieces (1 large , one smaller) causing it to fall on my leg. no damages to limbs, but the table is dead. shai took the blame, though it wasnt his fault and now my mom has the fun joy of table shopping.
on Sunday morning we went on a walk from tel Baruch beach in northern tel aviv to Jaffa on the south side - around 10-11 k easy walks on the board walks and small parts of the Israel trail. we saw hand full of birds, blooming cactus and lots of people with too much time to kill sitting at cafe's and complaining about the economy. we got some gifts at the flee market and some old vinyl records and before we had to leave, we tried a shwarma, the best of the trip so far and according to the unaffiliated cab driver, the best in jafa, can't say i disagree. Friends came over in the evening for a good-bye night and next morning was time to head back to the airport.
a too short vacation of Tzfatit cheese, shwarma friends and family ended.
some photos are attached below
You are invited to view Gil Even's photo album: 2012-12-30 israel
cheers from somewhere near flo, more on that next time
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