Shalom,

  It’s Saturday so most everything is closed and there are no buses.  We walked the lovely promenade along the beach.  Then two of the English Speakers Club of Ashdod members came to visit Eve and us.  We all walked the promenade the other direction for a bit.  www.esca.org.il is their website and you can see how lucky we are that this group is here.  It was Chana and Sue, and her two dogs were our visitors. 

   Randal and I had anniversary # 13  Here are a few photos.  Soon I’ll send some of Ashdod which is Israel’s first planned city and its 5th largest. 

Ru

Celebrations: Anniversary and Bar Mitzvah

May 29, 2012 Anniversary # 13

Linda and Charmaine treated us to an anniversary dinner. This restaurant at the marina was recommended by Yael who works at the Herzliya Marina and also our friend Amos who has a boat at the marina. They were right. As soon as you sit down they bring you a dozen different meze dishes and some bread. Fried eggplant rings, breaded cauliflower, a pink, sushi like pickled herring were among the meze. Then they take your order. Refills on the meze come any time you want. I had calamari main which are calamari that are small but come whole. Linda had a mix of shrimp tempura and calamari rounds. They goofed and brought Linda the wrong thing so just added the right things to the plate and didn’t charge. Randal had salmon and Charmaine bouillabaisse and nothing was left at the end except some potatoes. Very, very full.

Shrimp and Calamari: Not kosher for Passover or any other time. But they were really good. The lemons here are the size of grapefruit. On the menu they had 3 listings: fish, seafood, and shellfish. We guessed that only those listing under “fish” were kosher.

Bar Mitzvah boy. Mazal Tov!

This young boy’s father asked if they could take some photos of his son on our boat. We gave him one of our American flag bandannas.