My Tree Defies Gravity

After another good breakfast at the hotel, we went to a city called Old Yaffo, where we stopped at a plaza and waited by a lemonade stand for Josh's family. Old Yaffo is very small, and pretty much no streets, it is mostly made of tiny alleys, and all the houses are made of stone. It is also right next to the sea. While the parents went on talking, Josh and I ran through all the tiny alleys and usually would go with Kaelan to try to find us. We went through alleys, and also through a tiny little park where we could hide. We found, in particular, four very cool alleys. The fourth one was very awesome: you could go on for a very long time, then take a left, then go straight, take another left, then a right, then you found yourself in a real street with cars, on the far other side of the plaza. It only took about 3 minutes to get back to the plaza, but, still, nobody was expecting us to be so far. Also, coming back, we had a very good view, since we had to go through the park on the top of the hill. This whole alley thing is pretty complicated and I could go on for a long time. Then we walked around a bit. We saw a tree that was in a pot hanging by strings connected to other houses, which made the tree hang in the air. Because the strings were see-through, it looked like the tree was floating. We ate lunch at a really good restaurant where I had some oven baked St Peters fish that only comes from lake Kinneret, that is, the sea of Galilee, but it doesn't really matter, does it?

After lunch Josh came in our car, and we drove North along the sea until we arrived to a place called Cesarea, which is an old Judeo-Roman settlement where there are pretty much no rules, so you can go around wherever you want, and there is a beach right next to it. We went to the beach and skipped rocks for a long time. Then we went around the whole place. It was really cool because there were many places to hide and sneak around in. Josh and I could have stayed there for ages, but we had to go. There was a circus where they had chariot races along the sea. Behind all that, there was a big amphitheater. Well, it was small for an amphitheater, but it was still big. When we were leaving, Josh and I decided to climb on a big pile of rocks. When we went down it on the other side, we found a sign that said "no climbing".

We drove to a kibbutz called kibbutz Dalia where we were staying. Then we met the others at Kibbutz Ein Hashofet where they were staying. There we met a really nice kibbutz member named Ruti who was a friend of John. It was a really nice kibbutz, but I did not like the food that much at the dining hall. When we we went back to our kibbutz to go to sleep, we saw this cat who was always hanging around our door. He came back a bunch of times throughout our whole stay.