Got Lauren and the kids signed up for healthcare. Its funny that the bus driver couldnt tell us where the Ginourmous Maccabi central office building was, that he passes every day. Thanks for that. A blind man could have directed us.
Funny: there are only baby changing facilities on the paediatrics ward, in the female toilets. Ben went to do that, or course. It was interetsing seeing the faces of people as I got out. Friendly people along the way to direct us to Misrad Hapnim (aka mad house for nutcases).
We were, of course, instantly told that "new olim cannot come in the afternoon"(but they're not open in the morning, go figure). After forcfully discuss that she was being silly, she let us in with a ticket.
After a 2hr wait we were seen, to get Ben's ID card. Well before this Lauren and Yael fell asleep, and Ben entertained orly on a chair for a good hour. We got to the kiosk, and again, "new olim dont come in the afternoon". after, yet again, explaining that their brain did not have the capacity to understand that they are a living contradiction, we came to the conclusion that they should see a doctor. we then went into the other room and spoke to a lovely lady (in between barks, literally, to others coming into the room) who sorted Ben out. There were often shouts of "you think this is a market place, get out of here and wait your turn!". Finally at the final desk, ID card acquired. Thank goodness.
I prayed to the lady in stupidland that I wouldnt see her again, and she said that I shouldn't be so sure.
Went to get something to eat for Orly. For some bizarre reason, when bored, she thinks shes hungry, no idea where she learnt that from. Salad acquired, lauren and ice coffee, ben a moca. The nice man came to deliver our stuff, and accidently spilt the ice coffee all over poor shmorly poorly, lauren and the table. Those of you who know orly knows she doenst like to get wet (it normally takes a single drop of water for her to completely remove ALL of her clothes by default).
The cafe froze as the hysterically inconsolable 3 year old whaled frantically, whilst Ben changed Yaels pooey nappy in a rather unpleasant toilet environment. Orly was finally consoled by removing her outer layer of clothing. Within about 60 seconds Orly then spilt her apple juice everywhere. The histeria that follwed resulted in Lauren having to leave the cafe with Orly, the waitresses moving our table and offering rugelach as consolation (which I declined mum and dad) and Orly was finally consoled by removing the remainder of her outer clothin and spent the rest of the day in her underwear!
In the cafe we played looking at the tram line: "mummy and grandma call it a tram, daddy and orly call it a train, yael calls it a flabadaba". she then pointed out all the flabadabas for the remainder of our walk down Jaffa street to our number 6 bus back to Givat Mordechai.
Managed to get home. do some major unpacking. and were brought dinner by one of sophie's friends (thank you very much!).
Electrical fuse went about 20 times tonight! and when the landlord came down to see, OF COURSE (!) it didn't fuse :) o well. electrician coming in the morning.
A fun packed day. still no bank account. No phone. but happy days.
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| orly patiently waiting at the bus stop |
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