Flying Cats

Offff, little bit jaded this morning after all that wine last night, breakfast was a disappointment, because I was up a little later, well it wasn't that I was late waking, it was that I was very slow in everything I did, so when I got to breakfast they had ran out of melon, my yoghurt just wasn't the same without it, the cappuccino helped though. I chatted with Karen who had been looking out for me yesterday so that we could go out together, the trouble was I had been cleaning and didn't have the time.

I took myself off to the Business lounge to catch up on my blog and chat with Natalie, I now have a list of all the classes at the Dan Panorama, I just need to check out the monthly charges.  We chatted whilst I blogged, I received a call from Berlitz asking to change my appointment to Sunday, this is the appointment for information on Hebrew lessons, why they couldn't just tell me over the phone I don't know.  Another guest and I struck up a conversation, her name is Amy and she is American, Amy is over here with her partner for two months, her partner is working here and Amy is seeing the sights of Haifa. I left Amy as I had to feed my body before the bed was delivered.  I walked to Japanika and ordered take-away sushi and Edemame mm mmmm, and walked to the apartment, halfway there I received another phone call from the delivery guys, my bed would be arriving in 30 minutes.

I arrived at the apartment to find Itzhak and an electrician busily working there way through the lighting, and Nelly was in the gardens planting flowers and shrubs. Itzhak showed me all the things that were getting done, and all the things that would be done in the next few days. Happy days my bed arrived with two gentlemen who put everything together at an amazingly fast speed, so now we have a bed, two bed side cabinets and chest of drawers and a mirrored unit, and I still have heaps of space in the bedroom for a chair I have my eye on.

Nelly popped up to see my bedroom furniture and she approves, she helped me position the chest and mirrored unit because I couldn't decide the best place for them, then we set about cleaning up the apartment, I swept through and we sorted the empty boxes ready for taking downstairs, xmas decorations were moved to the warehouse, and then I washed and squeegeed the patio, by this time I was gasping for a drink, I went to tell Nelly and Itzhak and told them I was popping up the road for a drink but Nelly rescued my parched throat with a huge bottle of diet coke, the trouble with drinking fizzy is the amount of times I had to stop what I was doing to use the powder room, but at least I wasn't feeling so dehydrated, although I don't know how because I think I could have saved a heap of time had I just poured the coke down the toilet......

All the bedding and towels are now in the wardrobe, remember this thing is huge, not long enough for dresses but masses of shelving. My Beloved met me at the apartment and we set about removing all the packing from the last few boxes, we have now only our chest of drawers from home to sort and then all the packing and paper wrappings will be gone. My beautiful pictures and canvases are all unwrapped, The Turra Coo picture Buba Mumma and Daddy gave us is looking good in the living room, I can't wait for the rest of the furniture to arrive so I can organise everything and get the canvases and paintings up on the wall. We made a great job of clearing everything up and getting a little organised in the chaos of our belongings, and then My Beloved started to look pale and sickly, HE WAS HUNGRY, so we drove back to the hotel took our showers and decided tonight it was steak time.

We ate in Barbarossa, we shared a starter of Salmon with a teriyaki dressing and salad which was so light and refreshing, we then ordered the steaks, I took a sirloin steak, which was actually two steaks when it arrived, this was accompanied with Bulgar mixed through with mushrooms and was delicious, My Beloved chose the Fillet Medallions with mashed tatties, and once again the tatties were light and fluffy, we have yet to figure out the difference with the tatties, they are completely different from the Scottish tatties we are used to, the colour is creamy, but with a hint towards a buttery colour, and the taste is really light, I am over the fact that I can no longer get neeps, because I have found things that I can replace them with, but I can't get over these Israeli tatties, they are lush, and as you may know I don't eat tatties as a rule. Van Gough Vodka Double espresso shot to finish off, and a Chocolate concoction dessert, and if you sipped the shot and ate a little of the Chocolate concoction at the same time, your tastebuds were tantalised in such a way that when the last spoonful was finished you just wanted to lick the plate.

We walked back to the hotel and managed to walk past the Wine bar 107, and the lobby bar, even though Ran gave us a lovely greeting, we headed to the Business lounge and My Beloved checked his work mails and then we headed to bed, both very tired.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot, on the way back to the Hotel we saw a flying cat skimming around the trees, we have these in Scotland and we had them in our garden in Turriff, but hells teeth we call them bats at home, and they are small and black, this thing was the size of a cat with wings, and My Beloved informed me we have them at the apartment, let me tell you if they try and take up room space in our building I will be using one of the many guns I see around the area and shoot the buggers, I have no idea what the animal flying cat protection league would say, but I really don't care either...... and apparently there are 32 varieties of them in Israel too.