Kibbutz living...

This, we could get used to!

We got to our kibbutz around 5:30, after a long day on the bus, during which the driver showed his skills down narrow streets in the Artist's Colony, and came within millimetres of a major incident with another driver! They just will NOT back down around here!

The guide asked if anyone needed a bathroom stop after our close call with so many ancient walls.

One of our fellow travellers had stated that he could not go for communal living.

His mind was changed in just a few hours!

We were pleasantly surprised by a party on the lawn last night, which is apparently a regular occurence. Children with hoola hoops, giant bubbles, juggling...it was all happening at the kibbutz until about 10pm, when, presumably, the children went off to bed.

Actually, they hit the internet to play games, which was extremely annoying. No amount of Nur glaring daggers at them would move the little darlings.

For those who happen to be reading the blog -- that is why there was no installment last night.

Well, that and the fact that only one of the computers is set up for English.

Hebrew computers. Who knew... all of the hotels and hostels have everything in English.

The Hebrew keyboards and set-up brought back the fact that this is a different country, no matter how familiar and comfortable it has become!

The kibbutz has a hotel, which we're staying in, an indoor pool, outdoor pool, two dining rooms, and the cutest houses, which presumably the locals live in.

One dining room seems to be for visitors, the other for residents. The food is delicious, in fact so delicious that Nur was dreaming about hommus balls last night.

How one would make them, we don't know, but apparently in dreamland they are divine!

Time to go for breakfast now, before Mr M gets there and eats all the good stuff first!

He was a good boy yesterday and didn't get lost once! We were all very impressed!!

Hope everyone is having fun back home in the Australian winter while we walk, swim and lounge around in 30-40 degree temperatures...