02.11.00 Jane's hockey marathon happened on Friday February 11.

Benjamin and his classmates went to the opening ceremony P2110001 Jane and Devon were both on the blue team P2110002 P2110003 Jane played ofense in her 6PM game. She scored 2 goals in the game we missed earlier that day P2110004 P2110005 At 6 they were still winning P2110006 but when the game ended, the red team had gotten the lead.

02.13.00 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 P2130007 After the fallafels, we needed to get Benjamin candy to bring to his class' Valentine's Day party. We went here P2130010 and here is a picture of the shoppers in the store P2130008 P2130009

02.19.00 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. P2190028 We experimented a lot to get a good image of this sign as you can see P2190029 P2190030 P2190031 We began with a walk on the beach which was beautiful P2190013 and also had some wonderful sculptures P2190011 P2190012

The beach had some wonderful ruins of old crusader era walls P2190014 P2190015 P2190016 and was beautiful to walk along though at times, you had to climb thru the rocks P2190017 P2190018

Then Benjamin and David found a turtle shell P2190019 while Suzanne and Jane were finding sea shells P2190020

When we climbed off the beach, we saw a ruin of the original Crusader walls P2190021 Then, it was time for lunch P2190027 as everyone was hungry P2190022 P2190023 P2190024 P2190026

After this, we decided to go to another part of the National Park P2190025 and see the preserved ruins. We saw columns P2190034 P2190035 walls P2190032 P2190033 P2190038 and statues. P2190037 P2190040 P2190039 P2190036

Before leaving, we stopped at the playground P2190041 P2190042