Gavriel in Israel

Where we last left off I was about to get in the taxi cab.  So we took our 3 duffel bags down to the cab and said good bye to my Abba.  We got into the cab and were off to the Airport in Tel-Aviv.  The cab driver was playing some pretty bad music so I made up a stupid dance to go along to the bad music.  By the time the bad song was over we were almost at the Airport. When we got to the airport, we checked in our bags and went through security. Then, since it was 4:30am, Ima bought me and Ezra breakfast. My brother and I both had a croissant and hot cocoa, it was really good. Then we went to our gate, but we noticed that we still had an hour until boarding, so we waited and watched a fountain for a few minutes and then we went to our gate.

Now we are going to fast forward until we are on the plane. On the plane, we buckled in to our seat and we saw the security video (which we've seen a million times). Then we were off! On this flight, on the TV screen, they showed the movies Admission and GI Joe. For me, Admission was pretty boring, but the GI Joe movie was awesome! There were explosions and ninjas fighting on zip lines on a cliff. It was totally wicked! Then the plane landed in Madrid.

We had a three hour layover in Madrid, and then got on the plane to Dallas. On that plane we had little screens in front of us. I didn't sit next to Ima and Ezra, I sat a row ahead of them between two people that I didn't know. On that plane, I watched the GI Joe movie again, The Croods (twice) and Jack the Giant Slayer, but I fell asleep during that movie because it was really boring. We landed in Dallas, and we had to go through customs. The line was twisting and turning from the room with passport control to very far down the hallway. When we finally got to the passport control, we went to claim our bags and go through another line. That line did not take as long. Then we put our bags back so they could be put onto our place, and went to our gate. My Ima worried that we wouldn't have anything to do during the three hour layover in Dallas, but boy was she wrong! By the time we got to our gate, we had only half an hour until boarding.

We got onto the plane and there was no screen. I slept almost the whole flight. When I woke up, the first thing I saw was the Willamette River and lots of trees. When we landed, we came out of the plane and the first person we saw was our Uncle Boaz! We ran to him and hugged him and kissed him! Then we went to go claim our bags, one of our bags did not arrive, Then we saw our Saba and Savta, they drove two cars. My brother and I went home with Savta, got ready for bed, and waited for our Ima to come home and read to us. That night, I thought to myself, boy we went on a little adventure, but the big adventures are about to begin. Then I fell asleep.

Signing off,

Gavriel