So being with the fam is getting off to a slow start. I sat in on the rflexology workshop and it's all about alternative healing and finding points on your hands that correspond to points on your body and knowing how to massage them to relieve pain elsewhere. I was torn between thinking it was pretty neat and utterly ridiculous but nonetheless it's an experience.

So now Noa is out with a friend, Yotam is sleeping off his all night activity and my cousin and her husband are putting down in the kitchen so Im at a loss as to what to do with myself. I think we are going out this afternoon and then having a BBQ anf then tomorrow should be busy so Im hoping it will get less awkward.

Just thought I'd give a mini update. Hopefully the next is more like the last one- very full!

Edit: So the trip to the beach was very much awesome, as was the BBQ before hand. BTW Israli bbq does not include hotdogs or hamburgers, but kabobs! of chicken (amazing, wonderful, tender chicken...) and some other meat I uh, didnt recognize. And pickles and salad and potatoes and yum. In general. My cousin's husband's friend came over with his two daughters (who spoke no english and stayed to themselves the whole time, as Noa proceeded to nap after eating, teenagers- so antisocial. ) and was quite the jokester, he said not to take him seriously as he was leaving after he kept telling me to call my bf and "dismiss him" for an israeli boy who would teach me hebrew. He joked that it was the ONLY way to learn since I would tell the boy, talking, no touching, then maybe when I knew hebrew, then MAYBE he could touch. Yes tempt boys with my body to learn hebrew. LOl. I rolled my eyes. He was obviously kidding around. I told him I would use rosetta stone, he was like psh, wont work. Which is probably true since I will have no one to talk with by oh well, haha. Then I pulled out the "Hey my boyfriend and I's next anniversary will be three years" and everyone was all like, thats so long for someone so young, whoa, and all that. So it was fun, I took his joking as it was meant- as joking (that to be honest will make steam come out of chris' ears)

And then we went to the beach at 6:30, at home people are leaving then but here its still packed! People are in the water AS THE SUN GOES DOWN because its still nice and warm so we stayed until about 8 and it was lovely. Also we brought the dog, Mickey, and he just ran free. We rarely saw him as he played with other dogs. Things are so lax here dogs right in where people are swimming. Then on the way home Noa being her diva self demanded a popsicle so when we stopped for gas we piled out to get Noa's popsicle, which she then chose the most expensive Ben and Jerrys one, and her mom warned her it was 500 calories and Noa took that the wrong way (you are saying Im fat?!) and so she INSISTED on having it. She didnt like it, so I swapped with her. I had gotten a cheap standard popsicle albeit in a tropical flavor- passionfruit, but got to enjoy a gormet imported one thanks to her stubborness. Win! Noa is too funny. Later when we were eating and her mom thought she didnt want the snack her mom made so she didnt make her one, Noa came down all upset she had to make one herself. her mom mocked her, she made the snack, it was funny. Then we talked about crowd surfing and moshing.

So it was agood evening. I got tons of pretty pics. Was fun.