Deityblog

Okay, been back from Israel for a little while now, time to finally get my thoughts down about all the cosmic craziness that occurred.

So we get to our United flight at Dulles airport, outside of Maryland. We stand in line for a good long time, after asking where to go. When we get to the counter, they tell us that we've been standing in the wrong line, and we have to go around the corner to these totally unmarked counters in order to check in. WHen we go around the corner, the guy tells us we're too late, and we explain what happened, that we were told by a United employee to stand where we did. This guy proceeds to give us a nasty lecture about reading signs better and not trusting anybody. Sound advice, b/c next thing we new this guy we giving us a security check--when he knew doing so would cause us to miss our flight. And then they wouldn't give us a voucher to get to the front of the security line, and because of their check we had to be padded down and frisked, the whole thing. We were absolutely seething. So we get to the counter, and lo and behold we've missed our flight. They put us on the next flight to Newark, but then we've gotta get from Newark to JFK in order to make it on our El Al flight. The woman at the counter says she'll put a note in our file to give us vouchers for a cab to JFK.

We get to Newark, and guess what, no vouchers. We argue with the women at these counters for a bit, as time rapidly ticks by, and finally get into a cab. Thank God, we made our flight on time. Thank God, we got to Israel--our first time ever there together, for our honeymoon/pilot trip. For the Sulha and for our souls.
Of course, they lost our luggage. But we pretty much expected that at this point. So we gave them our info and trained on over to Petach Tikva, where we suited up in 40 shekel Old Navy knockoff t-shirts that were tacky, but clean.

We made our way over to Park Mekorot HaYarkon, where we immediately ran into Eliyahu--Hallelujah!!