Haifa & Ben-Yehuda St.
22.10.2010
Tuesday – October 5th, 2010
Today we headed the city of Haifa, pronounced with that “chh” sound you always hear me say. We drove along Hwy 2 which winds along the coast all the way North to Haifa, a port city. And Heather informed me this is where there is an American Navy base, so there are often hundreds of American soldiers docked right in town.
We headed to the Baha’i Gardens, which without the proper tour I don’t know that much about. But, they can grow beautiful plants!
Afterwards, we realized we were hungry! Oh no! So, with the ease of Heather’s handy-dandy iPhone we googled Kosher restaurants in Haifa and found, of all things a Chinese restaurant. I must admit it was interesting to see the word Szechuan spelled out in Hebrew letters. Not an easy word to say and spell. Grandma normally doesn’t like Chinese food, but guess what? She loved it! Said it was the best restaurant we’d gone to in our whole trip to Israel.
We finally had to head out and just see the rest of Haifa from the car because Grandma & Papoo had to get back to Tel-Aviv for their flight. They were leaving earlier than us, so don’t worry we have many more adventures planned!
Steve, Kathie, Grandma & Papoo went to the airport and dropped Heather and I off at the apartment. We couldn’t sit-put and headed out to walk the streets of Tel-Aviv’s night life. We headed toward Ben-Yehuda Street and found shopping, and artists market, and a wonderful Italian restaurant. We had a bottle of Italian white wine and tapas all night while Heather re-taught the rules of SHesh-Besh, or backgammon. Needless to say, she won. Damn.
We met Steve & Kathie back at the apartment and hit the sack! Now it was just us without the concern of where we go being handicap accessible. Heather told Noah that he could make a million bucks if he wrote a Tourists Guide to Israel that has ADA demands in mind. Think about it, a book geared toward families with a few slower individuals knowing where to go and not go. Where to rent a wheelchair and which museums are worth the effort! Noah go for it! Heck, you could expand that into other countries that have eco-tourism on their radar!
Signing off,
Naomi
