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Eilat Day Three

Posted on June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 by Keryn Ross
Zee!

Today we split up—Eva, LaDonna, Gee, and Em went back to the aquarium (our tickets were good for three days), while Bradley, Zee, Hebs, Yum, and I went back to Coral Beach. The two places are right next to each other, which was very convenient.

Zee and Hebs were on a roll this morning—something something coconut song—so it was a very jovial ride to our destinations.

Hebs snorkeling in the Red Sea (I’m REALLY bad at water photography, apparently.)
Yummy snorkeling in the Red Sea
Corals!
Can you see my glasses, smushed into the snorkel mask? It TOTALLY worked! Even after my glasses and my mask got fogged up (yes, we applied anti-fog stuff several times, still fogged up), I could still see at least some, and way better than yesterday.
On the coral reef drop off zone

The sea was choppier this time, with larger waves and more wind. We rented life jackets for Yummy and I, so we could concentrate more on snorkeling and less on simply staying afloat. Thus reinforced, Yummy was bold enough to snorkel in the drop off zone—practically the open ocean. It was very scary and exciting!

The bodiless woman (Yum looks very smug in this picture, this apparently is a dream come true for her.)
Either she’s yawning or screaming. Or acting.
It’s getting very dramatic here.
Happy and exhausted.

We snorkeled and splashed and played to our heart’s content, and then went back to the apartment for lunch. After lunch, we (minus Eva, who stayed home to rest) ventured out to the air-conditioned Ice Mall to explore the “local” shops, e.g. The Children’s Place, Tommy Hilfiger, and Addias. 🤣

A mall with a roller coaster, carnival games, ice rink, zipline, human claw machine…oh, and stores, too.
Zipline above the shoppers (turned out to be very very expensive, so we didn’t choose to partake)
Mema and Gee, waiting for the elevator at the mall
Bradley and Zee

The “cool” thing about the Ice Mall (see what I did there?) is the giant ice rink in the middle of it. You, too, can go ice skating in the midst of the blazing desert! Okay, only Hebs, Yum, and Zee chose to partake. Yummy rollerblades, so she was right at home, and lapped her brothers mercilessly. They were less sure and stuck to the wall, mostly.

Good thing there is a wall.
Not too steady.
Yummy, the best ice-skater our family has.
She’s going to lap him AGAIN. And not gloat (too much).
Zee, exhausted, after snorkeling and ice skating and all

Despite the much-advertised “no tax” status of this mall (for some reason the 17% VAT (value added tax) doesn’t apply in Eilat?), things were pretty pricy. Gee bought a cool wrapped rose quartz, Mema (LaDonna) bought some linen capris, and I bought a headscarf. That, and some aloe vera for sunburn + ice cream for the non skater kids, was the grand total of our purchases.

Delicious ice cream–Em chose chocolate.
Gee chose Oreo Cream.
Hebs was thrilled to find this Xbox Game Pass car at the mall.
There were actually two of them, and the owner of one was coming out as we were taking this picture. He was SO excited that Hebs was excited about it. He ended up giving Hebs a cool Pokemon coin for free! It was very cool and very fun.

We stopped at a grocery store and dropped another $100 (330 shekels) on food. Feeding nine people in Israel is expensive!! We have eaten FIVE dozen eggs in the eight days we’ve been here. (That’s pretty impressive, in my opinion.) Eggs are easy, cheap protein; hard-boiled they make a nice lunch, especially with the ubiquitous pita bread (sooo delicious) and a little salt. Too bad we don’t have the millions of eggs here that our chickens are laying at home.

2 thoughts on “Eilat Day Three”

  1. LaDale says:
    June 9, 2022 at 3:50 pm

    Too bad it would be a little ridiculous to send all those eggs here to you all there. 😀

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    1. Keryn Ross says:
      June 10, 2022 at 11:20 am

      Wouldn’t that be nice? I see there is a cougar in PG, hopefully it doesn’t come visit us again. 🙂

      Reply

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