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  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 23

    Shirut

    September 18, 2023 in Israel ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

    Today was our service (shirut/‏שירות) day. It was a looong day. But boy did it fly by. Really reminding us what it was like to pioneer here. The productivity and the quality of your time in service can feel a lot more rewarding in many ways then sitting in a car driving from door to door (which still needs to be done).

    Afternoon was with our friends calls. Chelsea did RVs while I went and did Hospital Visitation on a couple of sisters in the Rambam Hospital. Look at that view outside of the windows. 😊
    Then, was a Bible study with a young one who has finished the ELF book but still making some progress to baptism.

    In the evening Chelsea and I spent time with a couple who has (since we left here) had a baby and is currently undergoing treatment for major health issues (stage 4 cancer) They are our age(ish) and full of life. While we were living here Chelsea and the wife were very close. The couple helped us A LOT and we never forget such love shown. So it was nice spending time with their positive faces and to catch up with each other.

    Overall, yesterday was a full day!    Read more

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 22

    Tour for myself???

    September 17, 2023 in Israel ⋅ 🌙 75 °F

    Usually, we make this tour for other people. But this day, we made the tour for ourselves! And the missionary couple with us. But they also do tours.

    I won’t go into each location and what it means. But here are some nice photos. Enjoy!Read more

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 20

    Friends……

    September 15, 2023 in Israel ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

    More visiting with friends. Yesterday morning we woke up at the COs house. They woke up at 5:00am! So, I felt bad and went out with them on the balcony and had some coffee. Until I finally woke Chelsea at 7:45 to eat with us.

    Then we went downtown Tel Aviv to spend time with our friends who were special pioneering. A young couple around 25 years old. Italian and Israeli couple who just was told they will no longer be special pioneers as of 2 weeks ago. So it was nice to catch up at a brewery!

    After them, we went and caught up with our friends from bethel who have been here for 10 or so years. They are from Argentina. We drove to a brewery just a mile or two away from where David killed Goliath. In the valley of Elah. After having some beer here and food we went to ashkalon to watch the sunset. This is just north of Gaza. Apparently there is some sort of sewage leak and the water in the mediterranean Sea has some poopieness to it. Im not 100% sure what’s going on. But some say it’s coming from Gaza 🤷‍♂️

    Today has been fun. The start of the new year rosh Hashanah. The Jewish new year. Everything was close except for the beach. So Chelsea and I along with the missionary couple went to the beach up in the north for a relaxing time. After this, we met an Israeli couple from Haifa Hebrew congregation. We used to spend a lot of time together. So we went for some dinner and chats. They have been thru a lot during Covid so it was a nice time to build eachother up.
    As of a few weeks ago. The husband was just appointed as an elder! So nice to see him reaching out despite some challenges.

    Tomorrow is another day! So, we go to sleep for now. Chat soon!    Read more

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 19

    😱 we’ve missed this

    September 14, 2023 in Israel ⋅ 🌙 77 °F

    Today was full full day of catching up with amazing friends. We left the place we’re staying at (the missionary couples home) to go to see some of our friends in Bethel. The one couple we had plans to have lunch with them and catch up. She works in Hebrew sign language translation and the husband works in video for WHQ and is the overseer of translation. It was a nice time catching up for hours!
    Ice cream after finished it off nicely!

    Then we went across the hallway to another couples apt. She works in tech support in IT and the husband is on the branch committee over service dept. We had some beer and popcorn and chatted about them just graduating from Gilead and how it’s helped them in their assignment. After a couple hours here we were told that they organized a beach evening for us. So 50% of the bethel family (family of only 52-55 people) came to the beach to spend time together and to say hi after 4 years! It definitely made us miss service at the branch.

    Volleyball was fun with 25ish people. A few strangers wanted to join as we were laughing so loud and the volleyball looked like a great time. It’s a public beach so there is lots of people walking by and many enjoying the beautiful sunset. Just imagine the promenade in Miami and that amount of people…. We definitely stood out.

    After volleyball we went back to bethel Apts and had another meal and a couple more joined the party.

    We didn’t feel like driving back to Haifa from Tel Aviv (1.5 hours) so the English Circuit overseer (when we were here they were the Hebrew Circuit overseer) offered to put us up for the night. We spent some time with them catching up although we have never really been that close in the past. But, they have a cute cute bunny (yes, the COs here can have animals!).

    Now it’s sleep time. For another day tomorrow spending time with our friends in the center of Israel rather then up north where we used to live. Chat soon

    PS. We’re not posting names and photos of these couples as there could be some complications. But just know. Everyone of these dear brothers and sisters are amazing individuals!    Read more

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 18

    Updates….

    September 13, 2023 in Israel ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    Yesterday was a day of climbing in some caves next to an archaeological site (everything here is like this). Soooo much fun but I hurt my poor little finger. 😬

    Today was spent catching up with some friends. One of such is a special pioneer sister who has been here for decades. She offered to treat us to lunch (one of our fave spots downtown Haifa). We hung out at her apt as she showed us her drum set and I smothered her cat who is on drugs that make it unable to escape so easily hehe 😜

    We wanted to leave but our car was blocked in, that’s typical here to double park. See video for reference. Thankfully they left a number to call and a sign in Hebrew that we were hardly able to read.

    We then went to the BEST felafel place for dinner next to the KH. We chatted with this man who stayed open later for us to enjoy our meal and talk about his life as a falafel maker and balancing it with his social life.

    Then was meeting! Hebrew meeting. I have 2 improve comments that honestly should have had more preparation involved. I got one laugh from behind (I didn’t think what I said was funny). 😬 I hope i didn’t say anything too wrong. Lol

    After meeting we went for ice cream and to meet our old landlord to collect some money! Our security deposit from 2016. We never got it before we left! Now, our trip ends up paying for itself. 🙌

    Tomorrow is more activates. Will keep posted    Read more

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 16

    Sunset & hummus

    September 11, 2023 in Israel ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

    And the purpose of our trip…. Falafel and humus!
    Along with a nice sunset.
    Finishing the day strong. 😊

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    Day 16

    Were back….

    September 11, 2023 in Israel ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

    In Israel now. Made it last night to our friends house.
    Now, out and about but starting with our favorite bakery.
    Shakshuka and a fruit tart for breakfast!

  • TravelerCroatia 🇭🇷 / Israel 🇮🇱
    11
    Day 11

    Sorry

    September 6, 2023 in Croatia ⋅ 🌙 75 °F

    Boy oh boy. This week has flown by. Each day was supposed to end with a post to this hear penguins.
    Let me just catch y’all up.

    Sunday we drove down the beautiful coast of Croatia as you know.

    Monday, we toured around the old city of Dubrovnik…. I think I already shared this? It was beautiful and peaceful even filled with 1,000’s of travelers.

    Tuesday, that was beach day. It was also VERY relaxing. We sat on the beach and read our books. The water is super super clear and clean. The beaches here are not sandy but round rocks the size of your fist. Each rock is a work of art and tempting to bring home and make some sort of coffee table with. We traveled a bit of a smaller town 40 mins from Dubrovnik and ate another yum fish dinner.

    Wednesday morning we dropped off our friend Tony at the airport. He is flying to Rome for a trip within a trip. Chels and I hung out at the beautiful Airbnb and then did another beach day. We read to each other our books and people watched the locals. The water is very cold in the Adriatic Sea but somehow super refreshing with the dry warm air. For the evening we went to a restaurant/ family’s home. We had an upscale home cooked meal in their 500 year old oil press factory warehouse. They only take 1 or 2 families per meal and do it only a couple of days per week. Thankfully we made it! Messaging the son on WhatsApp we found out that it would be our only night to be able to do it. It consisted of 5 course meal with free wine and beer and home made liquors. All the food and cheese was from their small farm and garden. And everything that needed cooking was done in a fire pit Croatian style called Peka. All for $42 per person.

    Thursday we again hung out at the beach, did some shopping, and relaxed until we had to go back to the airport (30 min drive) in the late afternoon to collect Tony. He really enjoyed Rome.

    Friday Tony and I went rock climbing outside. I found a local spot only 45 mins away and saved a 2 hour trip because of that. It was only us out there and super secluded. Friday night was pizza and downtown boardwalk. Finishing the night with an outdoor movie by the old city.

    Saturday we hopped on a boat that took us to 3 different islands and fed us a fish lunch. Each island had its own beauty that was different from the previous. Unfortunately, we only had a shortish amount of time on each (3 hours, 1 hour, and 1 hour).

    Now, Sunday we’re back at the airport in Split and ready to fly out to Israel. 🙌
    Looking forward to catching up with friends and eating some yummy middle eastern food!    Read more

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