Aliyah - Going Up

Aliyah -  (Hebrew) 1. "Going Up;" refers to immigration to Israel or the holy land, a term in use since the dispersion or before, and referred to in the book of Ezra. 2. One of several waves of immigration (Aliyot ) in modern Zionist history.


This morning I woke around 7 am I have no recollection of My Beloved leaving as I had slept so heavily, I think it may have been the massage yesterday and the massively long walk the day before, I made myself presentable for breakfast and took myself off to the restaurant. Whilst eating another guest started to chat with me, her name is Karen and she is of indian descent, and comes from San Francisco, herself and her husband are here on business, we had a chat about the places to visit in the area, and I told her about the bus service as she has tended only to walk in the Carmel area, and there is so much more to explore just on the outskirts.


I organised my blog and whilst blogging I received a phone call, our bedroom furniture is ready, it will be delivered tomorrow between 2-5pm, hooray, now that means we owe Pinhas a bottle of whisky for getting it here in double quick time. So tonight the final payment will be made and then tomorrow afternoon I will be waiting all housewifely at the apartment for the delivery men.


I then set off for the Carmel centre I had just arrived outside one of the many coffee shops when I decided to call Buba Mumma we had a lovely chat and caught up on things going on in Turra Toon and Carmel centre.  My Bubaliscious is eating jars of food now, and growing up fast. Buba Daddy has a new job, but has been put out to grass mean time. Ahhhh I love to speak to them, the line being so clear makes it feel like they are only next door. Buba Mumma got her itouch only Lou Lou left all her details on it and Buba Mumma turned it off again as she didn't know what she should do, I told her to get Lainey to sort it out and restore it to new and then start it up, soon we will be able to Facetime with the Fullwoods.

My Beloved called and set me chasing a goose, and a wild one at that, I had to go to the apartment root around our paperwork looking for a Virgin, now this is a rarity all over not just where we are, I then had to look at the unopened boxes to figure out the shapes of the things inside and find the correct box which would contain our papers from home. Bingo first box, but it had no Virgin statements so My Beloved had to phone the UK and speak with an adviser to sort our his Virgin account, the trouble with going paperless with all things banking is that when you need details you have to rely on your knowledge base, and My Beloved has one hell of a knowledge base, but obviously not on his Virgin account.......


Seeing as I was at the apartment I decided to utilise some of those lovely cleaning products I had purchased yesterday, I set about the new floor to ceiling wardrobe, I cleaned the insides and then preceded to fill it with clothes, the wardrobe is amazing, BUT it is also amazingly short in all the wrong places, how can you have a room length, floor to ceiling wardrobe but no long hanging space, I believe most Israelis are the same height if not taller than us, so how can this be, do they fold their dresses and jackets........needless to say we need another wardrobe to make up for the shortness of the one we have.


Once I finished putting all the clothes away, un-ironed I might add, there is no danger I'm re-ironing those things until we need to wear them, I locked up and headed back out as my stomach by this time had decided that it was needing some food. So I headed to Mandarin, the place I was stood outside when My Beloved sent me chasing a goose. I ordered lunch and today I decided to try something different, so it was Quinoa salad, with cranberries and pickled lemon slices, cucumber and corriander it was amazingly fresh and tasty, and the Americano's, yep I had two were lovely. I had a quick chat with the Demonic One and then walked back to the hotel, well nearly I had a quick detour via Berlitz which is a company for teaching languages, I have an appointment for tomorrow to speak prices.


My Beloved arrived back to the hotel and we took off down to the furniture shop to finish off our bill ready for delivery tomorrow. We took the whisky for Pinhas but he was not working, so we will have to deliver it another day. We ate in the Business lounge, and I was so reminded of home and a 30th Birthday party and garlic, the hummus was saturated in garlic and it made it very hot, and very tasty, but it reminded me of the home made garlic mayonnaise I had made for Buba Mumma's 30th which was fiery hot with garlic.


We decided to take a walk to the apartment and I showed My Beloved around his side of the wardrobe. We set about the walk home and for some strange reason we could not get past the Lobby bar, it was like we were trapped, our bums were quickly glued to seats and eventually we had to stop fighting the inevitable and start drinking.  We were served by Ran and he is a young man of 21, and three weeks out of the army, such a knowledgable guy for someone so young, the people of Israel are a very knowledgable people and passionate about their Country, it makes you feel very proud to know them. Shabel was on reception tonight and has been teaching me Hebrew words again.

מצע = bed (metah) (f)

קשה = hard (kasha)

Poor Ran was bombarded with questions and he answered all that we had, he explained Israel by sending me a video link which I will add to my facebook, its a very powerful 6 minute clip.