Fourth of July on the Beach

Well, we are continuing to have holidays out of season here at the JC. Or, rather, in Galilee. Some people bought some fireworks in Tiberias when we went to get ice cream, and we had a mini-Fourth of July party on the beach. It was just these two little fountain things, but they were like, the most exciting thing we’ve done all week, lol. And they had sparklers!! I haven’t had a sparkler since we lived in Michigan. It was awesome. It was the source of much joy and happiness. I think that fairies would have sparklers for wands. Like the blue fairy in Pinocchio. J

Today we went kayaking in our free time. It was really river rafting. We were in big inflatable rafts with a couple of paddles and five people in each one and we paddled down the Jordan River. There were a couple of itty bitty little rapids, but it was mostly pretty tame. Our group totally won tho. We out-paddled all the groups in front of us and were the first ones done. Too bad no one else knew it was a race… Lol. Apparently one girl got knocked off her boat and into the river by a tree branch. No joke. I wish I had been there, lol. And another group definitely started pushing each other in and ended up tipping their raft. They were soaked. I got a blister from paddling. Right underneath the ring on my left middle finger. And it’s finally starting to really warm up. Which made me happy, because I was really really over 60 degree weather. I am so ready for spring.

Tonight we went to the Fish Restaurant. They give you, literally, a whole fish. With eyes and everything. And fins. All the girls were freaking out about it while we were waiting for our food, and I was like, come on guys. But then they brought it out, and I totally would have been fine with it, but Bryan, the guy at our table, picked it up and was making it like, *swim* and the fins were dangling and it was really creepy and I was like, sick!!! It was really funny tho. And I did take a picture of me kissing my fish. And then Bryan put its head in his mouth and was like, waving it in Richelle’s face. Again, super funny but also really creepy. And then we went up to Tiberias for ice cream. I was taste-testing some of the Israeli chocolate, and then the guy was like, shoving a taster of bubblegum in my face, so I was like, ok, and actually it was really good. So I got bubblegum and chocolate (not Israeli chocolate, tho, I didn’t like it, but the chocolate that I did get was excellent). It was a good night.