Shabbat, 15 June 2013

I got up a little late this morning, but I still walked over to the gym and back. It was a lovely morning.

We ate lunch at Kakao today (downstairs from Greg café at Ice Park) because David wanted apple pie and Greg café didn't have any. I decided to try a Sabikh Wrap. It's kind of like a burrito, but the tortilla is harder, and it's stuffed with egg plant, a hard-boiled egg, potatoes, and hummus. Talk about fusion cuisine! It was good, too.

While we were sitting there at the restaurant, we suddenly realized that David had left his bag in the bathroom. I quickly went back to check for it, but it was already gone. Not to worry, though: before we even finished eating, a security guy found us, verified that David had indeed left his bag in the restroom, and then brought it to us. How's that for service!

After lunch, we got sodas and drove up highway 12 to a dirt/gravel road that goes of to the right towards הר ברך Har Berekh ("Knee Mountain"). It's a wide, nicely graded road, and we had been out it a little ways once before. But, on the online maps, I could see that it went much further. I wanted to go to the end, because I figured there would be a nice view of the Arava from there. However, after driving quite some distance, we came to a spot where it crossed a small, dry stream. It was rough enough at that spot that I feared something might scrape the bottom of the car, so we turned around and headed back. David was a bit upset because he had misunderstood me and thought that the road somehow went through to somewhere so that we would NOT have to return on it. Although it's nicely graded, it's still quite bumpy due to the washboard effect. In any case, it's really beautiful and desolate out there in the middle of the desert.

This evening we went over to Ice Park again to get frozen yogurt. We were also there at the right time to see a nice ice dance show that we had not seen before. It was in 2 parts, the first featuring a guy skating alone, and the second featuring the same English girl I mentioned previously doing more of her amazing acrobatics on the ring that they raise slowly up to high above the ice.