As promised (part II)

Now where were we?

Ah, so when we left off, we were almost through with Tuesday of last week. Moving right along, after we surveyed the countryside in the Golan, we went to some more monuments to soldiers lost, as well as a bunker that had belonged to Syria during the Six Day War.

In order to get there, we had to go through a mine feild. The mines are still active and are fenced off so no one gets hurt. Cows, however, walk freely all the time.
Also, there were more fun artillery to climb on ...

After this, we started back. We dropped Chaim off at the bus once more and thanked him for everything. We proceeded back to the hotel for another all you can eat adventure.

On Wednesday, we still had the car (we rented it until Friday at noon in order to get unlimited mileage) so we went off on our own to do a little more independent touring and some more shopping.

First stop was the Naot Shoe factory located on the beautiful Naot Mordachai kibbutz (that's what they do there, they make the famous shoes), Two pairs for me and one pair for Michael later, we were off again.
We passed some more tanks (you're welcome!) ...

Filled up on some gas ...
And toured around the scenery some more.

Ending up at the famous Golan Heights winery!!!

We toured the winery and picked up some interesting information on how the wine is made and we also sampled some lovely vintages (and I got somewhat smashed).


My kinda place! Get sloshed and buy more bottles! Oh yes!

After that, we headed back to Tzvat to see if there was anything we missed before. By this time, most everything was closed so we headed back to Jerusalem. On the way, we hit Tevariah again for some dinner.

The next day (Thursday), we still had the car. So we headed to Tel Aviv to tour a bit and visit some of Michael's relatives breifly.

We walked the beach in Tel Aviv and enjoyed the scene. After that, we headed to Michael's Nana's house to visit with her for a bit.
Then we met up with more of Michael's family and went to dinner. We went back to Jerusalem again that night, after getting slightly lost in Tel Aviv and mildly frustrated with the signs being very difficult. It all worked out and we got back late at night and very tired.

Friday moring, we returned the car and shopped and cooked for Shabbos. We went to the Lapp's for shabbos dinner. Jake was there at his parent's house and we all had a lovely time. Lunch was at home and we relaxed. The weather has been cooler the last couple of days, which has been really rather nice. Tomorrow, we hope to do laundry before the Nine Days start and since this coming week will be our last here in Israel (for a little while) we're going to make the most of it indeed.

I hope everyone has enjoyed this and is now up to speed. If anyone has any suggestions of what we should see our last week here, please feel free to email or leave a comment! Also, this is the last chance if anyone wants us to bring back anything and has not emailed me their list of requested items, they should do so now!

Shavuah Tov!