לוויתן קטן בעיר גדולה: It only took two bars of pop-rock chocolate

Higlight of my day:
"now that i came through your window can i be in your blog???"
-ilana

So on Friday morning I was convinced into going to do a Selichot (Hebrew: סליחות‎) tour... at four am…. All it took was Cori, one of my staff, to tell me she would give me two bars of pop-rock chocolate. (Honestly I thought Israeli chocolate couldn’t get any better, BUT THEN they added pop rocks to it! It’s like a carnival in your mouth!) So I woke up at four and did סליחות around Jerusalem… turns out it wasn’t much more than walking around to different synagogues between the hours of four till six thirty am and sitting in for one or two prayers. And negatively the womens section got progressively worse as the morning went on, it was kinda a let down. On the plus side we got to see many people stubbing home from the bars in the earlier hours (actually a very strange contrast- on one side of the road were all the partiers and on the other all the prayers… not many people can say they’ve seen that). But it all turned out to be worth it when Elkiana bought us all marzipan for breakfast!
After סליחות I came back and slept for another four hours, and then went to lunch where my friend Leeann and I had the best idea to surprise our staff Cori with a birthday present! So we collected money from everyone who was still on base and then went out and bought her some candle sticks. Wanting to make it a great presentation, we enlisted the help of Noah and Shosh. The whole plan was complete with code names! Cori was little bird, Noah- Medium Bird, Ilana was Kola Bear, Leeann was Lizard, and I was big bird. Our plan was ingenious! We were going to have the security guard yelling at us from outside the gate pretending to not let us in because we didn’t have our I.D.’s and then call cori to come and get us! Sounds so easy right! Well it was very difficult to convince cori to come down and get us out…. So that was the first flaw. Second flaw she was LIVID when she came out and she almost refused to take the package that the guard was handing her… bad because we had wrapped a million boxes and put them all inside one another(original I know). Once she finally took it and opened it she was very happy with the gift, although she did say that wasn’t funny-which it soooo was!
The rest of the day I just hung around with Lainie, Sophie, Ilana (the best blog follower ever, if only she would actually follow), Gabe, Micheal, Jesse (MY NUMBER ONE FAN!), and Leeann. It was a very relaxing שַׁבָּת to say the least! After שַׁבָּת a bunch of us all went out to Aldo, the best ice cream in the entire WORLD, for David’s birthday. It was a lot of fun, and we all ate a lot of delicious food which always makes everything fun!

Not much else has happened on this side of my world… So until next time I hope you all have an easy fast!

Ps i know i forgot to mention how AWESOME ilana is!!! YOUR THE BEST!! and i think your nose is falling off