On the morning of Wednesday i was still debating whether to take a cab or to use the public transportation which required to switch trains with my luggage. Finally I called a cab for 10:30 and on 10:10 I brought my luggage to the side walk and waited. I saw a woman with a baby in the stroller and I had a feeling she was an Israeli, so I just walked by and tried to hear in what language she will talk to the baby, then I asked her if she is living in the building. She said yes and We started to talk in Hebrew. She came with her husband who is working on his post doc in MIT in Biology. She is originally from Kibutz Beit Hashita- remember? the one that is doing pickles and you visited there around 10 years ago. We still have their cap in our closet.Anyway I told her about Yael and gave her Yael's phone number, but then the cab came and I left.
The driver asked me about which route I would like to take and I said the shortest hoping that it will cost me less. I got a nice tour while driving toward the Pike (the toll road) but the road had only one lane working so it wasn't very fast and I found out that the public transportation is paying 4 times the price for the toll which added of course to the sum and I ended paying 48$....Well I try to use it as a lesson to understand better the implication of each choice.
When I arrived to the airport the clerk asked me if I want to take the flight that leaves in 35 minutes and not the next one that leaves in 2 hours. I was pleasantly surprised and jumped on the plan, that gave my more time in NY and in Borders. I took Kindle with me and used my time in Borders to brows the books and to order 5 books!!!The airplane was packed. Three days before I saw the the diagram of the airplane and chose my seats. I chose a seat in a row of tree that left an empty spot in the middle, the same thought led the other guy to choose it, but just minutes before the plane was going to leave a girl literally jumped in, opened the luggage door above and the other guy's bag fall of and than after a sorry she took her place in the ... empty seat :( We both felt the same.She was very cheerful - 21 years old Israeli chubby girl, just got off the army and took a trip with 2 other friends in the US. Her mom is Israeli Greek and works for Continental so her ticket was a standby free, but what amazed me was that the family gets almost unlimited stand by tickets and also 10 tickets to give to friends for 300$. So her friends payed 300$ for tickets in the high season to Israel. She told me that she is starting Architecture in the Tel Aviv Universityץ. She told me that she is starting Architecture in the Tel Aviv University.
The airplane was full of religious people swinging back and forth with their prayer books and shawls. Some had the black big hats and some just the small knitted caps. One with that cap was with his small child and wife. The wife took care of the child and he prayed from a small booklet and rocked back and forth full of energy. The whiskey near his Coke probably contributed to the fun. I tried to read what he was reading and there was something about a chicken and more. May be it was a pray for better food in the airplane - no complains here!Anyway, in Ben Gurion Airport I took a cab which was fast and nice to Savta.
Savta is OK - no more pain. Her wound is still ugly but, healing. Today we went shopping (I drove). Prices here are really high and more than I remember. Even fruits and vegetables which were cheep are higher. When I told mom to buy some lemons she said that their price jumped (almost 20 shekels for a kilo)ץ.
Dani called yesterday since he got the email from Ari telling him what happened and Varda called today and invited us for Rosh Hashanna. We will probably stay home since Savta will be better here.
Soon I am leaving to meet Uri. Tzipi is in Poland with her family to film a documentary about her fathers memories from the Holocaust.
Till the next time,
Good night (morning) everywhere around the globe.
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