Saturday 7/1/06 – Herzelia, Tel Aviv,
On Saturday, the tour went to a conservative synagogue for
services, but since we had plans to visit Miri and
Below, in the picture on the left are Miri, me, Sue, Orly, and Mom. Baby Itai missed out on the other pictures because he was napping, so here he is on the right in Jonathan’s lap. Note the big grin on Jonathan’s face. Both my kids love babies!
Around 3, I called David to come pick us up. He arrived just before 4, but we did not leave until 5. We went back to see his apartment. Then we went to a shopping center and got a pin for my watch band, which I had lost a few days before and a new battery for mom’s camera (the film camera, not the one Dad dropped in the Jordan.) Then Jonathan realized he had left his camera at David’s so we went back to get it. Then off to the cat rescue that David volunteers at. That was fun – there are hundreds of cats in two huge chicken coops. We went into one and David and Benjamin lay down and the cats climbed all over them (Jonathan sat down). That blue splotch in the lower left corner of the mattress is Benjamin.
Jonathan stood up, took out his laser pointer and a cat was chasing the light. He got a big shock and a scratch when a cat climbed up him to get the pointer itself. We left there and went to Jerusalem. We arrived around 8:30 and hadn’t eaten in hours. We decided that the fastest would be to get dinner in the hotel, but it was not fast. Because we got back too late, we missed Havdallah (the rabbi did Havdallah for the tour.) After dinner we put the boys to bed and David took off. I repacked the bags and we crashed too.