Superbowl & Shtuff

Thursday Laynie and Leah made their way down to Jerusalem from Haifa. We went to Hebrew Union College (The Reform Movement's Seminary) for a reunion of URJ camp staff.

(Maxwell, Mollie, Jill, Sam Roberts (Harlam's Assistant Director), Laynie and Leah.)
After we left HUC, Sam took us to Focaccia Bar off of Ben Yehuda and then to this delicious little Waffle shop. We met up with a camp friend, Itai Liptz. Just so happens he is the part owner of a bar in Jerusalem and took us all out. The following night Maxwell made dinner for everyone, chicken and penne in a white wine cream sauce. Itay Chen and Itai Liptz came over and we hung out. It was a wonderful night. I went out with the guys after dinner back to Itai's bar.

Saturday we took a walk into the Old City. We strolled through the Armenian quarter on our way towards the Kotel. I was seeking out this spot I was taken to on EIE. After lots of wandering I found it:



Beautiful view of Mount Moriah and the Kotel. The pictures on facebook have group shots with everyone. They're wonderful.

After the Old City we walked towards central Jerusalem to look for an open restaurant. We found a nice little place that was essentially Italian food. I had a steak sandwich with cheese, don't mistake it for a cheesesteak. However it was delicious. The others got delicious Pizza and Pastas.

Some more pictures from the trip to the Old City that I particularly enjoy:



And then Super Sunday. Wow. We had Ulpan from 9:30-2. I played basketball from 3:30-5:30, hung out a bit, Skyped with the rents, made dinner. Then I got ready to go to Tel Aviv for the Super Bowl. It was a hell of a trek, waiting a long time for the Bus to the Sheirut Station and at least 45 minutes for the Sheirut to leave. Sheirut are 10 passenger little buses that go to and from Tel Aviv and also run within cities. It costs 22 NIS ($5.87) to get from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and takes about 45-60 minutes. We left our apartments around 9:30-10:00 and got to Tel Aviv around 12:30ish. We went to a restaurant/bar called Mike's Place. Most importantly on the wall there is this:

Beautiful. Philly was the only other city represented at the bar. Naturally. We hung out with Guy, Totah, Leah, Dahlia, Jill, Max and met a ton of people from Philly. There was a girl in there in a DeSean Jackson jersey, Guy was reppin a Don jersey and Max and I have are our Phillies shirts. It was a great night.

More to come. Love you all.
Kress