We hung in Be’er Sheva for a few hours yesterday and I just played with the kids and took Yaam for a bike ride around the block. After a yummy lunch we set off back to Tel Aviv. I got dropped off in Derech HaShalom where mum was staying because the daughter of Mum’s friend Sharon, Dana, who had stayed with us when traveling in NZ, was having her 26th Birthday party that night. It was fun – I was feeling a bit tired so it was quite hard meeting people that didn’t speak English very well but Dana and Inbal looked after me well. Then some random kooky guy just walked in off the street and I didnt know that he was a stranger and he started talking to me and he would always stand really close to you with some bizarre lack of personal space and he told me his conspiracy theories about the ’secret biological army base’ across the road. After a few hours of this my dad came and picked me up and we just went home and crashed.

This morning we went to Beni’s house in Herzliya and went for a swim in the pool there which was great – and then one of the lifeguards got his guitar out and we played for a while and he taught me a thing or two – about music, life in Israel and Hebrew – he was an awesome guy! After the swim we ate a bit of food at Beni’s restaurant then we tried to fish in the Marina with no luck and eventually a cheeky fish stealing the whole hook!

When we got back to Dizengoff we went and saw No Country for Old Men – which is bloody intense by the way – and then came home afterwards and watched Forest Gump – such a great movie!

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