Saturday, July 24
Shabbat.
So breakfast is cold (except for the coffee..)
We decide NOT to join the walking excursion in the AM to the Christian sites OR the Shabbat service at HUC and sleep in until 10AM. Breakfast is served (or so we think) downstairs until 11. So I go down at 10:20 to get a table. We have been so rushed every morning (because we are such late risers, we barely have time to enjoy the incredible buffet spread each day), so this morning we were all looking forward to a relaxing breakfast OUTSIDE (usually those tables are all taken). We I get down they tell me that all the tables outside are taken so I said I would wait for one, but they told me that I should sit inside because the breakfast closes at 10:30 today for Shabbat. A quick call up to the room to get the remaining troops up there moving and I try to nab a table outside (some are vacated but not set for new people). Getting a table cleared and then reset (we never really did get silverware) was a HUGE feat but somehow I did it, despite the servers waiting on all the MEN wanting tables and coffee first!! So we get our breakfast (cold-no toasters, no omelette bar and NO Espresso bar) but trays of pastries, breads, cheeses, all types of yogurts and smoked fish and and fruit and juices. Emily has her salads, olives, cheeses and halavah. Well, it turns out that breakfast does NOT close at 10:30 "for Shabbat" today but 11:00 as usual. He was just trying to get me to sit down and have breakfast then and not in 10 minutes! We have a lovely and relaxing breakfast OUTSIDE and linger over coffee for a long time.
At 12 we are going to hear a speaker in the hotel that KI has arranged over lunch (!-didn't we just eat??) from a representative of Women of the Wall....gotta run. I will have to blog more later about last night and the Bar Mitzvahs at the wall and Shabbat dinner. It was quite an experience and I think I may have to have Sarah do the honors!
Today we have designated as a 'family day' and are not doing any group activities (except the Women of the Wall talk) and tonight we are going to Yossi's. The girls want to join the teen group after Havdalah services on Ben Yehuda Street, so we may go alone (we will see).
Shabbat.
So breakfast is cold (except for the coffee..)
We decide NOT to join the walking excursion in the AM to the Christian sites OR the Shabbat service at HUC and sleep in until 10AM. Breakfast is served (or so we think) downstairs until 11. So I go down at 10:20 to get a table. We have been so rushed every morning (because we are such late risers, we barely have time to enjoy the incredible buffet spread each day), so this morning we were all looking forward to a relaxing breakfast OUTSIDE (usually those tables are all taken). We I get down they tell me that all the tables outside are taken so I said I would wait for one, but they told me that I should sit inside because the breakfast closes at 10:30 today for Shabbat. A quick call up to the room to get the remaining troops up there moving and I try to nab a table outside (some are vacated but not set for new people). Getting a table cleared and then reset (we never really did get silverware) was a HUGE feat but somehow I did it, despite the servers waiting on all the MEN wanting tables and coffee first!! So we get our breakfast (cold-no toasters, no omelette bar and NO Espresso bar) but trays of pastries, breads, cheeses, all types of yogurts and smoked fish and and fruit and juices. Emily has her salads, olives, cheeses and halavah. Well, it turns out that breakfast does NOT close at 10:30 "for Shabbat" today but 11:00 as usual. He was just trying to get me to sit down and have breakfast then and not in 10 minutes! We have a lovely and relaxing breakfast OUTSIDE and linger over coffee for a long time.
At 12 we are going to hear a speaker in the hotel that KI has arranged over lunch (!-didn't we just eat??) from a representative of Women of the Wall....gotta run. I will have to blog more later about last night and the Bar Mitzvahs at the wall and Shabbat dinner. It was quite an experience and I think I may have to have Sarah do the honors!
Today we have designated as a 'family day' and are not doing any group activities (except the Women of the Wall talk) and tonight we are going to Yossi's. The girls want to join the teen group after Havdalah services on Ben Yehuda Street, so we may go alone (we will see).
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