Our first full day at this lovely place, Club In, in Eilat, Israel at the bottom tip of Israel. We washed all our dirty clothes and hung them up to dry. The ones we put out on the chairs on the patio dried really fast.
We went to the presentation of tours and chose a tour to Petra for tomorrow, the Underwater Observatory with lunch and the glass bottomed boat and swimming for Thursday with the option to go back again free on Saturday, and a sailboat ride with barbecue for Friday. Risa, do you remember choosing activities at Beaver City, Colorado? This really reminded us of that time with you. When we came back, the hotel management had left us a bottle of water and a bottle of Israeli Barkan wine from Galil, Israel, and a box of candy. Verle tried to drink some of the wine, but he doesn't like it.
We ate cereal for breakfast and made sandwiches and macaroni from the groceries we bought yesterday. We made another stop at the grocery store on "campus" to pick up more chocolate chip cookies (yummy) and some jelly for our bread. Our little kitchen and refrigerator are working out very well for us.
We played cards for the first time since we left home April 24. What a surprise to travel almost a month and not get around to playing cards until today!
In the evening, a van picked us and two other couples up to take us to a "museum display." We weren't surprised that it was the Eilat Stone Company and they showed us all their jewelry and how it is made. A blue/green rock is mined here and makes lovely jewelry in either green or blue or a combination of the two colors. They call the green rock malachite. If I had anything, I would have gotten a piece of that. It was, of course, incredibly expensive. They did give me a pretty pair of charcoal earrings, probably cheap. Two other couples went with us, one from Los Angeles and one from Australia. The wives are sisters and all are originally from India except the husband from Los Angeles. He is a big man and kind of pushy but interesting. It was fun to watch the couples interact and interact with the salespeople at the stone company.
It was an interesting evening and a chance to see more of Eilat at night. Across the bay we can see Aqaba, Jordan. The lights are lovely.
It is really nice here -- flowers, warm but not overly hot in the shade, and peaceful. We relaxed, played cards, walked around the "hotel," took a nap -- just enjoyed ourselves, knowing that tomorrow will be a much more demanding day.
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