It is about 6:45am here, so it must be around midnight back home. None of us is getting much sleep from the whole internal clock hating us thing, and the food here is so strange.! Dishes are unidentifiable, except for the fish, you can sure tell those are fish. The weather and locale our very reminicent of my summers in Montoule, Long Island. Sand Dujnes and the salty smell of beaches.... ah back to the fun stuff.
Last night was awesome!! The hotel has a bar with a pair of agreeable bartenders. Limping my way through Hebrew I was able to have a lot of fun with the group. Not thirty minutes their and another group of fellow tribesman (Yes, that means Jews) showed up. They were from the University of Arizona, Buffalo, GW, and Vermont. We tagged along with them as they have been here several days longer then us. Turns out they know how to party, and in true Venga Boys style they did enjoy themselves. (This joke was just explained to me as being to obscure. The Venga Boys sang the song "We like to Party" in the late 90's.)
We eventually retired to what we think is the Hotel's Honeymoon suite. Their are mirrors on the ceiling and bordorline opaque glass walls inclosing our bathroom. Adam S., Warner and I are definetly getting to know each other.
We are at breakfast now, and this stuff is ridiculous. Mark says the fruit loops suck, and I trust his opinion because he has a finnish version of the Duck Tales theme song. We are going hiking today as well as bar hoping later. If I have any energy left I'll try to keep all of you "Amercai, as we are known in Israel" updated.
One quick thing. The elevators here are ridiculous. They have funny shapes and sizes and the buttons make no sense. Some arrows point up, others down, and even more horizontally. It is like the Willy Wonka of hotels. Time to go Hiking.
Matt "Etrog" Schiller
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Ok- Matt's second post, and again he had me laughing out loud...You're in the Holy Land---kvetching about the fruit loops! And in your post before that about the cell phones!(they may be old, but i've got to tell you i have been able to hear Ben a lot more clearly from Israel than i can when he calls from Ithaca!).So my suggestion would be that after you visit the bar (where i am sure you will imbibe responsibly) you should get your buds together, go to the elevator, and try out one of those horizonal buttons! Let us know what happens! Eve
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