Yesterday morning I took Lois to Shuk HaCarmel in Tel Aviv.  We had no clue where we were going but the gps got us there somehow!!  We walked around for a long time in the hot sun.  We bought a few things but of course Lois was down to her last 50 NIS and I forgot to take money and had only a 50 on me as well!!  On top of that we knew we would have to pay around 30 for parking b/c we parked in a lot after circling forever.   Anyway, it was nice and it was somewhere I had never been.  Lois enjoyed looking at all the produce.  She is so funny.

In the afternoon I took the kids to English and then we went to the beach for dinner.  We packed up sandwiches and ate on the beach.  Talia didn’t want to come b/c she was invited to her friend’s house so she stayed here.  I had wanted to find the Rishon beach that I love but for some reason I couldn’t get us there and instead we went to a different beach in Palmachim called Gam Yam.  I don’t care for the beach b/c it’s mostly shells but Lois was so excited to see so many shells in one area.  It worked out well.  I found about 69 pieces of sea glass, more than I have in my entire collection over the years.  That was exciting.  I brought a ton of it home, nice big pieces.

Today I played tennis in the morning and then drove Lois to the airport.  Keren fell asleep on the way home and then wouldn’t take a nap. ARGH!!  It’s basically what she did yesterday on the way home from Tel Aviv but I really wanted her to nap more than 20 minutes today!

The kids came home and did the usual.  I took Ben and Keren to the park in the late afternoon before dinner while Talia was at English and gymnastics.  I would have gone back to the beach today again but they had their chugim to go to.

This evening I went to a dressmaker to see about making a dress for Ayelet’s wedding.  She came very highly recommended.  Unfortunately, even though I loved her, she wanted to charge me an arm and a leg to make the dress and I refuse to spend that amount of money.  SO, I still have time (which is what we keep telling ourselves also about finding a place for next year, HA!) so I will keep looking.  I have one more lead and if that doesn’t pan out then I’ll have to figure out how to get myself uninvited from this wedding…

In kind of a crappy mood now b/c my evening didn’t go as planned with the dressmaker and it’s late so I’ll be going to sleep now.