We’re back safe and sound.
Our trip went really well even though the dollar had fallen a few points or cents or whatever against the shekel since we’d been last year…but according to my bank statement I only spent about 800 hundred bucks(and a 3rd of that was in airports). So we were still able to live it up in the holy land. We went to Jerusalem where I saw the Old City and the Wailing Wall, Israelis call it the Western Wall and religious types walk away from it backward after they’ve prayed and left a letter.
In Jerusalem we also saw Jesus’s Tomb and Adam and our guide Ofer got a sudden fit of the giggles inside the tiny space. I’m not religious and was only interested in it in a historical way but it was still a little embarrassing. Everyone else was taking it so seriously and they were weirded out by it I guess.
We didn’t have much time to spend there and it was a terrifically hot day so after 5 hours of walking around I went back to our host’s apt and collapsed.
The next day we drove to the Dead sea which was full of Germans baking themselves beet red. Adam actually swam but I only waded in to my waist.I’d shaved my legs that morning and the salt burned horribly. I rinsed off but my calves continued to burn for hours after ward. Adam and I had a tiny fight because after getting into the water I immediately wanted to go back to our hotel room for a shower and he wanted to sunbathe. So we sat on rented plastic chairs next to the German packed water and he sulked because he had to go and get mixed up with such a city girl. I read. Adam is tan and got blonde streaks in his hair. I retained my Irish tan. Folks, it just isn’t fair.
Typical of many sight seeing vacations my vacation wore me out. We seemed to have to get up very early every day to go somewhere or do something.I only had 2 days where I got to lie about and read on Adam’s parent’s patio next to the fountain, listening to the birds and being immobile. My favorite pastime.
Since our visit last year prospectors near Adam’s Kibbutz drilled for oil but found they’d produced a hot springs instead. So after midnight one night we hiked out to it and sat in it in the dark like cows. I even got in despite inevitable mud.
Okay, I have to get back to work(there were no less than 2 client emergencies while I was in Israel,3 if you count one of my clients dropping me for mysterious reasons). I had a hard time using Adam’s parent’s computer because it was in Hebrew which I can’t read. So most of the stuff that went wrong had to wait until I got home. I really, really need a laptop.
Here are some pictures of a wedding-the reason we went in the first place:A poolside wedding