well i figured since i haven't written in two days and i'm so excited about blogging again i'll just do two days' worth in one, besides the fact that i was just really anxious to do day 5. :)
obviously i had to pick the most amazing place i've ever been to: israel. i have never been somewhere so beautiful in my entire life, and i can't wait to go back this summer. and obviously since i'm me i'm gonna put up a bunch more than just one picture, and reminisce a little, it's what i do.
this is me and sam squared on top of masada, a mountain with ancient fortresses that overlooks the dead sea. we had to wake up at 3 am to make sure we were there in time for sunrise. obv our bus was late so our trip leaders were like just get off the bus and GO. soooo we turned what's supposed to be a half hour hike up the mountain into a 6-minute sprint up, and we made it just in time (the only time we were ever on time for anything, hah). it was awesome, in the literal sense of the word, to watch the sunrise from such a beautiful place. that was also a day that i know none of us are going to forget.
most of our birthright group making funny faces on top of masada. :)
this was one of the beautiful structures that was in a city called yafo, right outside tel aviv. it's a pretty area right next to the beach that has a lot of old world charm (and it probably had some of the best food and shopping in the whole state). probably my favorite place that i'd been to the whole trip.
me and sam squared partying it up in a bar in jerusalem on benyehuda street. one of the best nights we had out was here, ugh so much fun. peep the orange vodka cranberries (awesome drink, for the record). in order to take attendance we were all assigned a number and we had to scream it out on the bus, so aftet this we were all mindblowingly intoxicated, and it's the only time we all got out numbers right, ironically. and we're all screaming our numbers obnoxiously, and then this one girl nicole screams THIRTY FUCKING FOUR. i'm pretty sure not one person wasn't laughing. so great. i miss that night.
our whole group sitting on the edge of a cliff of the mountain on our first hike. :) what was cool was that after every hike we finished, there was an ice cream truck waiting for us. i never got ice cream because i think would be a bad choice (anchorman<3), but i just got a 2 liter bottle of water and downed that instead.
us in front of the bahai gardens in haifa. they descend down behind us, and that view. oh my, that view. there were so many places that we were taken to that had all the best views of the all the cities, and it makes you really feel when you're looking at something so breathtaking. i just wish the way i got to see it when i was there in person can be conveyed in pictures, but it never can.
me, sam squared, and sheba at the first kibbutz we stayed at. a kibbutz is basically a place where there are a lot of mini apartments and usually people work in them so they can live there. i hear a lot of people stay in some like these when they get out of the army. i think this was probably my favorite place we stayed. this was our second night in israel, and we got to just hang out and bond with everyone. one of the best nights ever, that's for sure. and yes, we are slightly shitfaced, nbd.
us and rob. rob was our best friend on the trip. see what happened was the three of us wore the same thing to the airport accidentally, and since the three of us all knew each other going into it, we looked especially unapproachable. rob was the first person to really actually sit down with us and get to know us. he is hysterical, and what i love about him is that he's completely real, no bullshit, he will give you the cold hard truth and doesn't care. we miss and love you rob!
pretty sure this is my favorite picture from the whole trip. this is us and david when we went on a bird-watching uh excursion? idk. we're in dresses because we went to a really holy city after that called tzafat. we were just having fun playing around. :)
this was our last night together on birthright. and it was by far the craziest. we were pregaming on the bus on the way to the bar. i'm pretty sure almost all of us were dancing on the bar at some point. our trip leaders, who weren't allowed to drink the whole trip, we got them blackout/throwing up/shitfaced drunk. such a good night i can't even deal.
i would include more pictures but that would just make this way too long. all i'm going to say is that it was the time of my life, and i would never take this experience back for anything.
one love, one life
let's get together
and feel alright.
one place, one home
you wanna make it where you're going
you gotta know where you're from.
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