Hey Again,

So we just arrived home from a 4-day trip in the north of Israel. We stayed at a Zimmer in the Bet Hillal area, a really nice place. It situated in the middle of the Golan Heights so we had "mountains" all around us and since the summer hasn't yet started for real here it the trees and grass was still green so it was a beautiful sight, we also saw snow on top of the highest mountain. With us on the trip was Yael and Yossi and their two kids Ella and Maya. Yael is originally from Germany so the kids and Yael spoke german so I have been able to train both my hebrew and brush up on my German as the kids didn't talk english yet.

We arrived at the Zimmer sight, which is a gathering of houses and room with nice gardens and a common area, on friday afternoon and unpacked our bags and then went for dinner. Once we where back me and Adi sat outside our room in the night talking about many different things having some wine and smoking some shisha....allinall a nice day. On saturday morning we woke up and had breakfast around nine. Afterwards we went walking next to a river that ran close by, it was really hot outside so I had to use a lot of sunscreen not to get burnt and it succeeded. When we came back in the afternoon we where all tiered so we went for a nap and showers before dinner. The dinner was at a really nice place with a great view over the river, the food was also really nice. In the evening me and Adi watched a movie from the Jacuzzi that was in our room =) reallyreally nice...and the evening ended out on the porch with leftovers from the restaurant.

The River

Me and Ella

Adi outside our room

Yesterday we woke up and had breakfast outside with and decided on what we would do. Later we drove to a memorial for a Helicopter Crash that killed 73 soldiers in the area in February of -97, when their two Helicopters collided in mid air. Later me, Adi, Maya and Moti rented two 4-wheel ATV's and drove on a guided tour in the area. It was really nice I have never drive an ATV before, it was scary at first but I got used to it pretty fast and then it was pure joy! When we got back to the Zimmer we where really dirty cause all of the dust and sand that the ATV's had been throwing around so we looked really tanned, before we showered. Later that night we went to restaurant and then up the mountain to the Nimrod Fortress for a guided tour in the dark. The view from up there over the valley in the dark was really nice. The castle itself was built but the son of sultan in the mid 13th hundreds, and it was built to protect from outer threats as the mongols had just pillaged their way through some years before. The tour was in hebrew but I found signs in english that I could read and Adi, Moti and Maya also translated a bit. We got back late at night and fell into bed immediately after a long day.

Driving ATV's

Today we packed up all our stuff and headed home to Haifa as the Pesach holiday ends today. On the way home we stopped in an older city, where all the houses where in stone, all the roads where of cobblestone and there where narrow passages and lots of stairs. A nice places but it was really hot. We had lunch that we got for free sense the waiter and kitchen failed to gives us the food we asked for and also undercooking some of it, but it was a good meal nonetheless. So now we are back in Haifa tiered but happy.

Til you read again,
Carl