Hakuna Matataa

This weekend was awesome!! Wednesday night we went out to a club called 'Gossip', and hadsuch a fun time (until we had to get up for ulpan thursday!) Then we couldn't wait to leave for Eilat after class! It was pouring outsidea dn we weren't sure if we were going to make it to the central bus station, becaue there are a few in Tel Aviv, and the cab driver only spoke hebrew. He told us the station we though we had to go to that only a "rakevet" (trains) left from there, and only autobusses go to eilat. So we trusted him to get us to the right station, and we did. We found our bus ok, and made it to eilat by 8:30. On the way we drove through miles (or kilometers) of desert in the Negev, it was beautiful!

My friend Talor came to pick us up with her friend and took us back to her apartment. It was so nice because I haven't seen her for two years since camp. We ended up going to sleep Thursday because we were really tired. But Friday we woke up early to go to the mall and the boardwalk, and it was really nice. I was there last time I was in Israel. It was so funny because everyone in Eilat thinks it's so cold there but it was so hot too us. That's why we went to Ice Space, an indoor ice building made completely from ice, with an ice bar and an ice slide! it was soo 'cool'!

Friday night we had a shabbos dinner and then we went out. We stayed out til about four dancing and going to a bar it was so much fun! (Also the cab drivers are so much nicer in Eilat, Talor was like best frineds with them).


Satuday we woke up at about three, ate some israeli ceralal (chocolate and vanilla), and then we walked to the boardwalk. On the way we passed a cool traffic light tree, and signs for Jordan and Egypt! Eilat is surrounded by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, And the Sinai, and the border for Egypt is only half a mile away..so weird. It was crazy how peaceful everything was in Eilat when so much stuff was going on around it. You could literally see Jordan from the window of Talor's apartment. We shopped around the boardwalk a little more, we bought gummigum (ice cream with gummy bears), and dresses, earrings...all for really cheap!





There is also a Hilton hotel on the boardwalk, it's sooo big, like a palace! We went inside to check it out and it was hugeee and so pretty! We also ate pizza and this place right at the entrance to the boardwalk, and it's amazing how good israeli pizza is. Before we went home we did hookah on the shore. It was so empty, but it was so nice. We watched a disco boat go by on the water, and airplanes flew right over our heads, because the airport is right behind the board walk.

We just got back! it was an awesome weekend! Ulpan tomorrow

-Hana