Jane's hockey marathon happened on Friday February 11.

Benjamin and his classmates went to the opening ceremony Jane and Devon were both on the blue team Jane played ofense in her 6PM game. She scored 2 goals in the game we missed earlier that day At 6 they were still winning but when the game ended, the red team had gotten the lead.

Pam Haines came to visit. We decided to take an excursion to downtown Herzalia (away from the beach) to look for a good fallafel. Along the way, we had to take the obligatory phone booth picture After the fallafels, we needed to get Benjamin candy to bring to his class' Valentine's Day party. We went here and here is a picture of the shoppers in the store

The next weekend we decided to take a trip to Ashkelon. This is an old town about an hour south of here with a long history back to Biblical times. We experimented a lot to get a good image of this sign as you can see We began with a walk on the beach which was beautiful and also had some wonderful sculptures

The beach had some wonderful ruins of old crusader era walls and was beautiful to walk along though at times, you had to climb thru the rocks

Then Benjamin and David found a turtle shell while Suzanne and Jane were finding sea shells

When we climbed off the beach, we saw a ruin of the original Crusader walls Then, it was time for lunch as everyone was hungry

After this, we decided to go to another part of the National Park and see the preserved ruins. We saw columns walls and statues.

Before leaving, we stopped at the playground