Another Wonderful Day in Haifa

I did this blog from the bottom up. Since I can't seem to get the pictures to go in the way I want them to, I tried doing it a different way. So, here I am at the top of the blog, but really at the end of the blog for me. Not too sure how much sense this is making!

It's night, ~9:30 pm and I'm sitting outside. Hookas are being smoked in front of me and to my right, and to my left two Russians are talking Russian. Inside the moadon they're teaching a salsa dance lesson. It's a beautiful night with a light breeze and I'm in Israel. It's so different here. The traffic is crazy...Israelis drive crazy yet they won't cross the street unless the light is green for walking. There may not be a car in sight for miles, but they don't move. I seem to always have to wait in the grocery store line as the cashier tells the person in front of me about a sale which the person suddenly decides she must have. Those are just two things. Yes so many things are different here and I feel different too. Oddly enough, I'm comfortable with just being aware that I feel that way.

Here''s a few pictures I hope you enjoy. Layla tov...


Did someone say they wanted some halvah? Um...exactly which flavor did you have in mind?

This isn't the picture I wanted in here but since I can't cut it out, I'll update you on the stair situation. There are 173 stairs that I've climbed everyday...until today when my roomate showed me the elevator ( 7 floors up). I'm still going to take the stairs but it's nice to know it's there.

My friend, Ronnie Spinner and I went to Broadway Bagel restaurant and caught up on our families and life. I last saw Ronnie around the time I went to Israel with him and 40 some kids to Israel in 1971. He got married to Debbie and on their honeymoon to Israel they stayed and made aliyah!

After lunch I went to the grocery store which was in the basement of the mall, long with the pharmacy/drugstore. After walking in the wrong door and having to go back out so the guard at the other door could check my purse, I had to decide which size shopping cart to take. Decisions, decisions...

And here's the thing about toilet paper and paper toweling in Israel: for whatever reason, it's sold only in huge, Costco-sized packages in the grocery stores! You cannot find a 4 or 6 pack anywhere. Hmmm...I wonder if this has any connection to the toilets??

The day ended with a wonderful visit with my friends, Ruti and Itzik Amoyal. They picked me up and took me to a beautiful area to view Haifa. We saw the Bahai Gardens and the gold dome from the temple was missing! Apparently they were cleaning it? I mean, the thing is huge...how did they even take it off? After we went to Zichron Yaacov for dinner. It's a very cool area of restaurants and shops. It was the end to another wonderful day in Eretz Israel.