I'm in ISRAEL!

Hello everyone, I'm in Israel, as the title of this post indicates. It's been a long ride so far, including 1 1/2 in New York and a 12 hour flight from JFK to Tel Aviv. Wow. Today is our first full day and we have so much stuff on our schedule. It turns out that--yes!--we will be floating in the dead sea. Sweet!

Israel, from the little I have seen, is amazing. When we left the airport at 5:30 it was hot and BRIGHT. I mean, searing bright. But, by the time the sun set it was almost cool and really comfortable. Our hotel is about a 2 minute walk from the Meditteranean (by the way, any spelling mistakes don't count in this blog, because spell check is in Hebrew!). We went for a walk on the beach last night at 10:30 or 11 and saw all of these people out, stilling have dinner with their family, going to any of the many clubs along the beach. It was very cool.

We also ate at this fantastic restaurant. Baba ghanoush (sp?) galore! It was great. And I think I had fresh halwa, but I'm not sure. Oh, also met with the ex Media advisor to a Prime Minister, you know, all in a day...

Well, there are people waiting to use this, so I'm going to sign-off. Will blog again when I can. Yay!