Fun times

The last couple of days have been fun, as the country is on holiday, and school doesn't start till the 22nd. First, my friend Osi from high school in Palo Alto moved back to Israel yesterday. Turns out that her sister, Orit, lives literally 5 houses away across the street! Her sister's boyfriend, Tomer, is also a good friend. It was really nice to find out that we are all neighbors. Tonight was also fun, very good friends of my parents, Annetta and Sasha, are visiting in Israel and took me out to a coffee.

Today was the most fun, though. There was a Ultimate Frisbee beach tournament in Herzeliya that I participated in. The last time I played in a beach tournament was at Wildwood over 2 years ago. The Wildwood games are played on very dense and damp sand, so you can actually run on it. The sand in Herzeliya is the exact opposite, arid, super fine, and thick. This makes running extremely hard, and extremely tiring.

They also had a layout contest for the tournament, which was a lot of fun. You can see me below sacrificing my body for the sake of mindless sport entertainment. I technically won the tourament, but we decided to give the prize to these two 18 year old younger kids who really put in a huge effort. The prize was a two hour private kite-surfing lesson, so I was happy to give it to them. Benny, this photo is for you, check ou the full extension, you know you love it...
(yes, that is me)