Well, this week has been...Interesting. Spent my first couple days in Israel sick, probably from not sleeping for almost a week thanks to a
Young Judaea convention and traveling. My cell phone that I bought to make life easier kept not working, causing me to go back to the store 4 times in three days, and then, the kicker, tried to turn my iBook on this morning and it went kinda nuts and wouldn't start.
Awesome. ( And don't worth, that "awesome" was being said with as much sarcasm as is humanly possible). But at least my phone is working, right? Man...
So I know I promised I'd talk about Amsterdam, but this computer I'm on is so ancient that typing really isn't so much fun. So the short story is I had a 7 hour layover in Amsterdam, so I went downtown and looked around a bit. Looked in some ridiculous stores, went on a canal tour, went to the Anne Frank house... Amsterdam is beautiful--I would definitely love to spend more time there at some point.
Flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv was mostly uneventful, until half an hour before we were supposed to land the pilot made an announcement. Apparently the fuel in Tel Aviv was contaminated so they wouldn't be able to refuel there, which meant they wouldn't make it back to Amsterdam. Sooo they decided to stop in Cyprus to refuel. How crazy is that? Instead of our already late arrival time of 1:30, we didn't land until almost 3. Man...
So basically, so far this hasn't been my usual "I love Israel" trip. Not that I don't still love it, it's just been hard. But Shabbas is coming, then Pesach, & I bought a gorgeous "Shalom of Safed" Haggadah, so that's all exciting.
Well, this "short" post has gotten a bit long, so that's all for now. Have a great Pesach, & hopefully I'll have better stories next time I write!
