old photos
sooo, I finally found the cord to hook my camera up to my 'puter, so now I can post pics again! Now I just have to take some... I wanted to the other night, but the BRAND NEW batteries I put in my camera were DOA. Don't buy Walgreens batteries!
SO, I am going to post with some old photos.
August 5, 2005 (according to my camera's date), I went skydiving. Lauren was visiting at that point; she really wanted to go. I had done it before in 2000 w/ my old roommate Heather, in Colorado. But I can't really remember, isn't that weird? I think its because my eyes were closed the whole way down.
Anyway, Lauren and I left Tel Aviv that morning with the intention of going to Haifa. But right as the Haifa bus pulled out of the bus station, we decided to call the sky diving place to see if we could come in that afternoon. (The place, HaBonim, was in the general direction of Haifa) Turns out, they had two cancellations at 4 pm that day, so that time slot was all ours. We got off the bus in some town north of Tel Aviv and hopped on another bus. We both fell asleep during the trip, and I remember opening my eyes from my two hour nap just to see us fly by a sign for HaBonim. So we yelled at the driver to let us out, and he dropped us off at the side of the highway. We really had no idea how far away the place was; we just started walking.
It was REALLY HOT. A nice lady picked us up and drove us most of the way, which ended up being about 5 miles.
We walked the last mile or so, and finally arrived at the place. We were about an hour or so early, so we decided to walk down to the beach to kill some time. The beach was about a quarter of a mile away, but we got lost and took the mile scenic route (which wasn't very scenic.) The beach, however, was:
We stayed there for a little bit and then headed back to the skydiving place. All of the instructors there are ex-paratroopers and have done thousands of jumps. Here is Lauren getting fitted by her instructor:
See how casually dressed he is? All of the instructors were decked out in oversize t-shirts and canvas shoes or sandles. No high tech gear for these guys!
That's the end of the sky-diving adventure; I made sure to keep my eyes open! That afternoon, we caught a ride out to the highway w/ a crazy driver (driving w/ him was scarier than the plane jump). We were worried that we might have missed the last bus up to haifa because shabbat was nearing, but we were good, and after only a few minutes of waiting a bus picked us up and we were on our way to Haifa.
Besides a tasty sushi meal and a really nice walk along the scenic tayellet in the upper part of the city, the Haifa trip was a BUST! We didn't want to spend the $$ to stay in a hotel in the Carmel area (the upper part of the city), so we were relegated to the lower parts, near the docks. MAN, it took us SO LONG to find a hotel or hostel, I forgot about this. We were using a Let's Go tourbook, and every number in it had been disconnected. We taxied around to a few of the locations, but none of them existed anymore. The whole city was dead too, at least in the area we were in. We walked past a couple prossies and druggies and up the staircase to a random hotel we walked by, and were so skeeved out by the owner and the decor of naked lady posters and some family member cookin up a meal in his boxers in the kitchen, we walked right out. He was so desparate for some guests, he chased us down, lowering the price. hellllll no, you couldn't have PAID me to stay there.
FInally, we ended up at a hostel, the Jaffa hostel I think it was called. The room was packed and smelly and hot (no a.c.), but clean and porn-free.
Ok, that story is over. I have one more pic I want to put up. A few weeks ago, I was headed into Wild Oats to study (and procrastinate) like I always do, and was suprised to see none other than ABE LINCOLN parkin his bike out front!
Abe knows, abortion kills children! That's the point, buddy!
SO, I am going to post with some old photos.
August 5, 2005 (according to my camera's date), I went skydiving. Lauren was visiting at that point; she really wanted to go. I had done it before in 2000 w/ my old roommate Heather, in Colorado. But I can't really remember, isn't that weird? I think its because my eyes were closed the whole way down.
Anyway, Lauren and I left Tel Aviv that morning with the intention of going to Haifa. But right as the Haifa bus pulled out of the bus station, we decided to call the sky diving place to see if we could come in that afternoon. (The place, HaBonim, was in the general direction of Haifa) Turns out, they had two cancellations at 4 pm that day, so that time slot was all ours. We got off the bus in some town north of Tel Aviv and hopped on another bus. We both fell asleep during the trip, and I remember opening my eyes from my two hour nap just to see us fly by a sign for HaBonim. So we yelled at the driver to let us out, and he dropped us off at the side of the highway. We really had no idea how far away the place was; we just started walking.
It was REALLY HOT. A nice lady picked us up and drove us most of the way, which ended up being about 5 miles.
We walked the last mile or so, and finally arrived at the place. We were about an hour or so early, so we decided to walk down to the beach to kill some time. The beach was about a quarter of a mile away, but we got lost and took the mile scenic route (which wasn't very scenic.) The beach, however, was:
We stayed there for a little bit and then headed back to the skydiving place. All of the instructors there are ex-paratroopers and have done thousands of jumps. Here is Lauren getting fitted by her instructor:
See how casually dressed he is? All of the instructors were decked out in oversize t-shirts and canvas shoes or sandles. No high tech gear for these guys!
That's the end of the sky-diving adventure; I made sure to keep my eyes open! That afternoon, we caught a ride out to the highway w/ a crazy driver (driving w/ him was scarier than the plane jump). We were worried that we might have missed the last bus up to haifa because shabbat was nearing, but we were good, and after only a few minutes of waiting a bus picked us up and we were on our way to Haifa.
Besides a tasty sushi meal and a really nice walk along the scenic tayellet in the upper part of the city, the Haifa trip was a BUST! We didn't want to spend the $$ to stay in a hotel in the Carmel area (the upper part of the city), so we were relegated to the lower parts, near the docks. MAN, it took us SO LONG to find a hotel or hostel, I forgot about this. We were using a Let's Go tourbook, and every number in it had been disconnected. We taxied around to a few of the locations, but none of them existed anymore. The whole city was dead too, at least in the area we were in. We walked past a couple prossies and druggies and up the staircase to a random hotel we walked by, and were so skeeved out by the owner and the decor of naked lady posters and some family member cookin up a meal in his boxers in the kitchen, we walked right out. He was so desparate for some guests, he chased us down, lowering the price. hellllll no, you couldn't have PAID me to stay there.
FInally, we ended up at a hostel, the Jaffa hostel I think it was called. The room was packed and smelly and hot (no a.c.), but clean and porn-free.
Ok, that story is over. I have one more pic I want to put up. A few weeks ago, I was headed into Wild Oats to study (and procrastinate) like I always do, and was suprised to see none other than ABE LINCOLN parkin his bike out front!
Abe knows, abortion kills children! That's the point, buddy!
posted by rachel at 11:06 PM
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