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its jared williams! im in israel
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3/7/2008: (0600)flew out of the Pasco airport for a 2 hour flight to Denver
(0810) arrived at the denver airport with an hour layover
(0945) flew 4.5 hours to newark, newjersey
(1320) arrived in newark, and had a layover till 22:50.
(2250) started our flight to Tel Aviv Israel, (11 hours)
(1640) (3/8/08) arrived in Tel Aviv airport.

We left the airport around 1700 (5pm Israel time), you guys were probably still in bet sleeping like little babies! (im 10 hours ahead of you guys). We rented van, stuffed our luggage in it and started our way into the heart of Tel Aviv.

Wow okay, this place is like amazing! Skysrapers, buildings, business all around where you go. The traffic is horrible, the drivers are crazier then snot.. specially compared to the US. --This city is easily comparable to new york or chicago. -- Anyways, these cars honk at you for no apparent reason and drive like crazy people. We drove around by the boardwalk right on the beach of the Mediterranean sea, its beautiful and smells very unique. So many people are walking around, walking their dogs, riding their bikes. I can see why obesity isnt a problem here in Israel, and the food is AMAZING! we'll get to that later.

So we're driving around and decided to go to our hotel "Park Plaza Orchid".. right on the coast of the Mediterranean (again awsome!) at night, the city comes alive with all its lights and even more people come out and start walking the boardwalk.

We get to the hotel, drive around for about 25 minutes trying to get to the parkingspot.. then we find it. Its on the otherside of this well secured gate and it has 8 parking spots. The floor is a light gray, with orange filled squares for parking spaces.. and very squeaky when you drive on it.. After we get to our suite (master suite!, its very nice!!) everyone got cleaned up and met in the lobby to get ready for dinner. My mom and I picked up our friends marty and his daughter Marayah (murr-ay-ah) and went downstairs..waiting and waiting and our other two people are not there so i decide to explore, and found this little internet cafee. As im typing this its (2323). (11:23pm).. and you guys are probably finishing up lunch and whatnot.. its all night here and stuff.

Anyways, the other two people finally came downstairs and we started walking around the streets (again.. crazy drivers lol..almost got hit a few times) but we came across this old Jewish man standing outside his restaurant waiting for business.. it was called like "Shaeng Ray" or somthin, so we go in and sit down. The waitress (single one..just one) serves us these weird chips with this sauce stuff and BOY! i'll tell you what.. its the best dipping sauce i've ever tried wow.. anyways, the restaurant was incredible, inside it looked like mirrors were everywhere, but things were so symmetrical, plus it was all green tinted inside because of this one funky looking light lol. Anyways, i orderd a Thai salad and holy cow! talk about freshly fresh veggies.. it was delightful, i wish you all coulda tried it :D.

After we eat, we talk and whatnot, and get the waitress confused because we wanted 3 seperate tickets (mom and i, marty and marayah, then bob and barry). after a couple minutes of trying to help her understand, she finally understood and got all happy and excited (she speaks fluent hebrew and not much english).. so our dinner came out to 73.10 sheckles (which was like 30 bucks) (1:3 ratio, 1 USD = 3 sheckle)...

Ice cream was sounding good after we all collected ourselfs from the meal, and started to walk down the boardwalk (yes! right next to the beach) to look for some, but we got tired and gave up, so we just walked around on the beach and went right up to the Mediterranean and started taking pictures and enjoying the view and blessing that we got to be standing there.

Anyways, im back in the hotel, ready to go to bed (i've hardly slept but 30 minutes the pass almost 28 hours, so im tired :P) anyways! Goodnight everyone! I'll post this tomorrow!


ps- pictures on the way

March 10, 2008 | 2:08 PM Comments  0 comments

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