Ancient Quessaria and Water!

Tuesday August 30, 2011

Today we met up somewhat early 8:45am.  I stumbled out of my bed around 8:20.  We had a nice breakfast on the deck and discussed our plan for the day.  Yesterday Lior went for a run and stumbled upon ancient Quessaria.  We decided it would be a nice activity for the morning.  We all filled up our water bottles.  There are three of us, and we took four bottles, always prepared :).  I wore such an Israeli hat from Lior, and the guys used stinky shirts like a kaffiah.  (Pictures to come). 

A bunch of sunscreen and water before we left...and we were off down the beach.  It was a nice walk.  We arrived at a private party on the beach, and their security guard told us in hebrew we could not pass.  Very Israeli Lior retorted, "it's a beach, we don't want to go to your party."  The security guy informed us that the beach is also behind us.  Lior said "were walking on the beach this way".  We continued along our way through their party, and up some fun rocks.  Finall, (only about 15 minutes later) we arrived upon ancient Quessaria.  A really great ruin.  When we arrived we saw two tour groups, one with older people speaking perhaps Russian.  Quickly we determined it was neither English nor Hebrew, therefore not for us.  The other group had people who looked our age, and clearly American.  We decided to join their group for free, without asking.  It was quite entertaining!  The group were Americans going to Tel Aviv University, English med school. 

We took some entertaining pictures and then went on our way.  We were supposed to have lunch with Yael, however, we think we passed on our bad train luck yesterday when we met her.  Her car died, and could not meet us.  Instead we had lunch here, and have been working on blogs and things of that nature.  A nice productive day.  The excitement is starting to grow, as it gets closer to our move to our house on Thursday.

As of now we have another roommate joining us Thursday, one Friday, one Sunday.  Then we will still await the other two the following week.  Irene definitely made a mess of peoples' travel plans.