The Adventure Begins!

So Lol, Ben, Orly and Yael set off on Monday morning for what they expected to be a holiday in the sun...... not quite!!!

After finally making it to the airport (thank you Saba and Uncle Andrew) we decided that the check in gate was the best place to do our final packing. So there we are with 10 suitcases, lots of duck tape and 15square meters of floor space (which we used all of to its fullest) and poor saba was covered in Yaels puke on his way to work! After the security dog was satisfied that we were hiding no cannabis in our cases, which was pretty obvious as most of the contents of our cases were visible to all we made it through check in and passport control leaving no time for shopping and straight onto the plane.

Orly loved looking out the window and seeing all the little people and cars. We tried to look for Talya out the window and we waved at her. She was very curious where people went when they stood up and wondered if they were getting off.

Then we landed and we were taken to the old terminal as there were too many of us on the plane making aliya. It took 5 hours from start to finish to complete a fun and exciting process with 2 tired, hungry children.

along the way orly made a new friend called Mia, they played with Geoffry the rabbit and were running around together for a very long time. we finally merited Lauren and the kids getting ID cards and were shipped back to the old terminal. We then had the slight inconvenience of carrying 10 suitcases, 2 children and a buggy, 3 handlugages and 4 coats to our overpacked minibus (exclusively for ourselves!). The young lady helped us by carrying the smallest item we possessed... Yael, thanks. The family making aliya with us were unfortunately behind us in the taxi receiving queue and were told by a confident driver that he needed 10minutes to fit 10 suitcases and 2 buggies in the back of his normal sized taxi. We left before the 10 minutes were up so did not managed to see the finished product.

The taxi home was great, the guy was friendly and we got our first chance at speaking to the locals.

upon arriving to our new home we were greeted with posters, balloons, made beds and provisions from the Orens (and Sam) (many many thanks).

First night? Cold but lovely. Lauren had a cold nose.

Bags and our junk EVERYWHERE.

Sleep.

the great shlep