I ate breakfast fairly early, too. Then I took out the trash and the recycling, and I started out on my walk after bringing the recycling bag back into the apartment.
I walked into town by a rather circuitous route because I wasn't in any hurry. I took plenty of pictures along the way. I had planned to visit the weekly open air "market" along HaTmarim since I had no lessons booked today, but it didn't happen this week, probably because we're in Khol HaMo'ed (the interim non-holiday days) of the the Pesakh holiday. Anyway, I didn't mind because I was more out for a walk than anything. It was overcast today, but the sun did manage to shine through somewhat. The air was pleasantly cool but not cold, with some breeze. In short, a GREAT day for walking.
I continued all the way down HaTmarim to the airport, and from there I went on to the sea. Along the beach by the mall, there are several walkways that go out over the water for a few meters, with stairs going down into the sea at the end of each. I walked out one of them, took off my flip-flops, and soaked my feet a little in the cool, refreshing seawater. Today's pic of the day shows my feet soaking in the water (and looking rather weird because of the distortion of the light as it passes through the rippling water):
After sitting a while longer with my feet out of the water so they could dry, I slipped my flip-flops back on and continued southward. I stopped and bought a glass bottle of PepsiMax at a small supermarket near there and then went on along the highway by the naval base to the little beach just south of it. I had finished my drink by then, so I put the bottle in the trash there, hoping that someone will pull it out and recycle it (I didn't want to carry it all the way to a glass recycling container, although there IS one near my place).
That little beach is also the place where Nakhal Shakhamon flows into the sea (on the rare occasion that it flows at all!), so I had decided to return home by walking up the nakhal all the way to Harim Road. It was a great day for such a hike. I took more pictures of beautiful flowers and of the views up and down the nakhal at various points.
After walking under two bridges (Khativat HaNegev and Sheshet HaYamim) and going through one of the 12 pipes under Harim Road, I walked home via Harim (stopping to work out a bit at the outdoor gym) and Argaman. I took even more flower pictures in that segment of my walk.
I rested a while after arriving home, and then I had a salad and an egg on matza for lunch. I put the matza on a large plate, broke the egg onto the matza, and broke the yolk. Then I carefully put the whole thing into the microwave and cooked it for a total of 80 seconds. The egg was still runny, somewhat like a soft-boiled egg. I actually let it sit in the microwave for quite some time, while I ate my salad, before eating it. With a little added salt, it was delicious!
After lunch, I did the rest of the weekly household chores: washing dishes, dusting, and sweeping the floor. Then I relaxed in my chair and even napped for a while.
In the evening, I lit candles, drank a little sweet red wine, and ate matza (no challah -- it's still Pesakh!), giving some of the latter to Pascal, to welcome this Shabbat during Pesakh.
I walked a total of 8.7 kilometers today.
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