Sunday, July 3, 2011

Days 12-14, on our own in Tel Aviv

The last 3 days have been relaxing as we have been enjoying our "vacation from vacation" by sleeping in and generally taking it easy. Friday we went shopping in the Tel Aviv artists market and shuk, ate more pizza, and then hit the beach for body surfing and jellyfish dodging. Abe surprised me by announcing he was up for it and when he got stung it was a badge of courage more than anything else. Saturday his brother Ben did the same thing. I got stung a couple of times and it wasn't too painful at all. The beach is so gorgeous and the water is so warm, it would've been difficult for the boys to stay out of the water all weekend and they had a great time in the waves.

We've continued to eat well, tonight we ate at a nice Italian Restaurant in the old train station area, in my opinion the best food of the trip. The worst dinner was Friday night at the Speedo restaurant (yes the same speedo company that makes the swimsuits)...they skimp on bathing suit material but they didn't skimp on the garlic in the kitchen because I wasn't feeling well for the next 24 hours. I'm looking forward to one more falafel and one more schwarma before we leave on Tuesday night.

Yesterday Sam and the boys met up with Abe's Israeli nanny from 8 years ago, Shelly. Sounds like they had a nice time catching up but I stayed back to let my stomach recover from the Speedo meal. Today we took a cab to Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, where we visited the Maccabai Games museum, took a swim in a public pool, and walked through a big park where they were holding some sort of sn Olympics for members of the Israeli army.

That's about it, we're now listening to the Giants game on my iPhone and can't believe that we'll leave for the airport in about 48 hours!

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