I spent most of the morning in the Business lounge chatting away to a gentleman from Dallas, we spoke about housing and restaurants and funnily enough the best burger he has ever had in his life was here in Israel, it was from Meat in Meat out and he recommended it highly, I don't like burgers much so although a little tempted I doubt I will try it.
I took myself out into the wild weather for lunch, the guard asked if I had stones in my pockets, and when I started to walk the wind was so crazy I was being forced into a run, every time I lifted one foot to move forward the gusts of wind blew me so hard I was running. I ate in Japanika, but decided to go for coffee elsewhere when I had finished, I took myself to Gal's bakery, now this lovely little bakery is set back from the road, and it has an outside and inside eating area, the facility is attached to the bakery and I can only describe it as a lean-to set in amongst trees. I ordered my coffee and sat with my ipad reading the latest Alex Cross book, now when I say latest I mean latest to me, I'm still convinced I have read this book, but I have decided to work my way through the series anyway. Whilst sipping my coffee the table opposite started to giggle and jump up from their chairs, the wind had increased to such a frenzy that the rain was being forced through every crack and crevice and unfortunately for them the roof above them was leaking, I felt a few drips myself and when looking down, I noticed the rain getting in under the garden door, time for a quick exit.
I ran through the rain to HaBank who were themselves having issues with water, again the driving wind was forcing it through the closed doors, but I knew I would be shower proof in HaBank as they have apartments above them. I once again sat and read my book, spoke with My Beloved who was getting an early finish today and waited for a break in the rain before heading back to the hotel.
When the weather cleared enough for me to dash home I returned to our room and set about the smalls with the soap powder, that sorted My Beloved turned up and we decided to check out our belongings, we need to make sure nothing is broken, so its open the box time.
The first box opened contained a huge ornament that was a gift on my 30th birthday during another life, and it was bust, it was a shame but I wasn't overly distressed.
So far any wedding gifts we have opened have all arrived safely, thank goodness, some of the arrivals are pictured below. We only have 68 parcels and we have managed to open 8 so far. We had to stop as My beloved was needing fed, so we locked up the house and headed back to the hotel.
HaBank for supper, I decided on The Trio of fish and hold the rice, but could I get green beans with that, My Beloved had the seafood risotto, we were both delighted with our dishes, my trio was shrimp, calamari and grey mullet, the mullet was anything but grey, and came coated in nigella and sesame seeds it was lush, we washed it down with a large bottle of Pellegrino oh and a bottle of White of course. Tonight we were being very good and no dessert was eaten, we even managed to decline a second bottle of the White stuff too.
Unfortunately our new best bar man works in the wine bar, which happens to be next to hotel, so we didn't get to the hotel as quickly as we had expected, My Beloved just couldn't walk past the entrance, I had already walked past mainly due to the need for a toilet stop, My Beloved reminded me the wine bar does have a toilet, that was all it took, one little toilet and the 2nd bottle of wine was bought. At least we remembered leaving the wine bar tonight, but I think we were burgled through the night, our room was trashed when we woke, but nothing seems to be missing.
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