Long Journey to Israel
Gotta run, so this will be kinda short:
Woke up at 7:30 am in Houston yesterday and flew to NYC to catch a flight to Tel Aviv where I'm staying for a week for business purposes. Long story short: our flight got to Tel Aviv six hours later than it was supposed to. This was thanks to three reasons: 1.) the plane was two hours late getting to the gate on departure, 2.) after we boarded, someone decided they didn't want to go after all, so baggage claim had to unload all the bags to find that person's bag, 3.) once we got over the Mediterranean, one of the passengers started having a heart attack which forced us to make an emergency landing in Athens. That detour only got us to the ground 20 minutes faster than it would have if we had just continued on to Tel Aviv, but I guess 20 minutes is an eternity when it comes to responding to a heart attack.
Two nights ago I only slept for four hours. Last night (on the plane) I didn't sleep at all. So I'm completely exhausted and the obvious thing to do would be to go to sleep.
BUT... a friend of Michael's cousin (both of whom are also in Israel, incidentally) just pointed out that the Israeli national soccer team kicks off against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match in an hour. So I sprinkled some money on Israel +355 (to render myself as much a fan as the locals) and now we're heading out to a sports bar to watch the game.
Pictures later mb.
Woke up at 7:30 am in Houston yesterday and flew to NYC to catch a flight to Tel Aviv where I'm staying for a week for business purposes. Long story short: our flight got to Tel Aviv six hours later than it was supposed to. This was thanks to three reasons: 1.) the plane was two hours late getting to the gate on departure, 2.) after we boarded, someone decided they didn't want to go after all, so baggage claim had to unload all the bags to find that person's bag, 3.) once we got over the Mediterranean, one of the passengers started having a heart attack which forced us to make an emergency landing in Athens. That detour only got us to the ground 20 minutes faster than it would have if we had just continued on to Tel Aviv, but I guess 20 minutes is an eternity when it comes to responding to a heart attack.
Two nights ago I only slept for four hours. Last night (on the plane) I didn't sleep at all. So I'm completely exhausted and the obvious thing to do would be to go to sleep.
BUT... a friend of Michael's cousin (both of whom are also in Israel, incidentally) just pointed out that the Israeli national soccer team kicks off against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match in an hour. So I sprinkled some money on Israel +355 (to render myself as much a fan as the locals) and now we're heading out to a sports bar to watch the game.
Pictures later mb.
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9:57 AM
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