Ahuva and I have been trying to plan a Shabbat together for quite a few weeks now and we finally did it. I met her at the central bus station and we made our way to the bus to Alon Shvut. We got on the bus and about an hour later, we got off and walked to her brother's apartment. Her brother, Dani and sister in-law, Sarah, have the cutest son named Aryeh. We basically played with him for the whole time. Aryeh is a little over a year old and he just learned how to walk so he was running all over the place.
Since their apartment was pretty small, we stayed in another apartment in the building of a family who wasn't there. After we got ready for shabbat, we lit our chanukkah candles, which we had to melt a lot to make them fit in the candle holders, and then went to shul. After shul we went back to Dani and Sarah's apartment for dinner. Their house was the most familiar place that I'd been to on Shabbat because we were talking about New York and Brooklyn and Flatbush, because they both went to Flatbush. Also, even though I don't think I've ever spoken to Dani before this Shabbat, I've known Ahuva and her family for a very long time.
The next day wasn't very different. We ate and talked and played with Aryeh the whole time. When we left their house on Saturday night, it was raining, and it didn't stop raining until Monday morning. Yeah, that's a lot of rain! While I was walking from the bus stop back home, I got soaked!
The next day, Sunday, the Moshava Reunion Committee ( of 2: Michal and Yifa't [who are awesome!]) originally planned for us to go to some sort of festival, but unfortunately it was raining. So, we all met up at the central bus station (I'm gonna start saying CBS, okay?) to try to decide what to do. Well, after an hour of standing around, half talking about what to do, half talking about something else waiting for someone else to make the decision, we finally decided to go to Talpiyot to go bowling. Then we had to figure out which bus took us to Talpiyot, which took a little while longer, but soon enough, we were on the bus. After we got off at the wrong stop, and walked around for a while, we finally found the bowling place. We went up to the bowling alley, made reservations, and went to get lunch for an hour until our lanes were ready. I'm not even going to talk about how long it took us to decide where to eat. Once we got back to the bowling alley, we found out that our reservations didn't hold and we had to wait on line all over again. So we waited for a long time and people began to get bored so they started coming up with a new idea. They discovered that there was a showing of the Muppets Movie across the street. As we began finalizing plans to go to the movie, our names were called because there was an available lane. Somehow, we decided to stay and go bowling. Once we started, it was a lot of fun. After bowling, some people had to go home, so we all went back to the CBS. A bunch of us who didn't really have anything to do, made our way to the food court. We all put chairs around the table and we didn't really move from there for the next three hours. We played all kinds of games and ate food and just chilled out. Once it started getting late we all decided to go home.
I was staying over at Nishmat with Noga. When we got to Nishmat, we lit Hanukkah candles, and I made them dinner. They don't really have proper dinners at Nishmat because they have to make dinner for themselves which they don't really do. Whenever I come over I like to make them dinner so they can eat real food and also so I can use their kitchen, so I made macaroni and tuna for them. Then we watched a movie and went to sleep.
Today, I woke up and had to leave kinda early because I was meeting up with my cousins in Netanya for a Hanukkah party. When I got to the CBS in Netanya, I met Miriam and Dov. Miriam's mother is my grandmother's cousin. On the way home, we made a stop to see Miriam's father, Hershy who is in an old age home. It was really nice to get to speak with him and it was really cool that he knew who I was and was happy to see me. Afterwards, we went to their apartment. Their I met Miriam's daughters Sigal, and her kids Gal and Tal, and Racheli and her kids Or and Nadav. We lit candles, had a great dinner (filled with oily food) and then they pulled out a deck of cards. Turns out, they love playing poker. We used matches as chips and played a bunch of rounds of 5 card stud. At the end of the night, I came in second place. I had a really great night and a great vacation. Wishing you all a Happy Hanukkah! Shalom V'lehitraot!
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