New Years!

Happy New Years 2007! I started off my evening at Rafi's apartment in Yafo. I drove there with my friends Katie and Inbar. We ate food and drank a bit and watched some fireworks from his porch, which was a fun experience. From there we went with Inbar to a house party that one of her friends was throwing. First, for those who know me, I much prefer house parties to bar parties, and second, I prefer them even more when I'm crashing them, so crashing one in Israel is a special trat. Second, Inbar drives a white 1971 Beetle, and we all crammed in to her tiny car and had the music blasting as we drove through Tel Aviv. This is Katie sitting in the back seat with me.

This is Rafi sitting in the front seat of the bug. Inbar was not such a fan of us taking photos in her car, and refused to participate.
The house party was fun, we didn't know anybody there, but we tried to make new friends.

I left the party to meet Jesse (who is staying at my house through tomorrow) at this bar called Mike's Place. He used to work there, so he wanted to catch up with his old bar friends, even though Mike's place is a horrible bar. Seriously, I would not take anybody there, and if they still insisted on going I would not join them. The clientèle fall in to three categories: 1. 40-50 year old single sleezy expats. 2. Random Euro travelers (aint nothing more irritating than a drunk German singing out loud to Pink Floyd) or 3. Obnoxious Jappy Birthrighters. In any case, I still met Jesse there, and as you can see from the photo below, he was well inebriated by the time I got there.
All in all, it was an experience, and as always it's good to see friends. Happy New Years to everybody!