The end of vacation, and some fruit

I interrupt my regularly scheduled vacation updates to say that im back home in Israel.  We arrived 4 days ago, at around 1am to the airport.  By the time we got to tel aviv, it was well towards 2am, and having to carry 4 heavy pieces of luggage, and 2 carry on’s up 5 flights of stairs was a treat!  needless to say we overpacked and bought too much on the way.  i think it took me about 30 min for the sweat to stop rolling off me.

But, its so wonderful to be back in the heat!  towards the end of the trip we had some cooler weather in san fran, germany and london, so im thoroughly happy to be back in the sunshine.  and for the moment, it doesnt seem that bad!  i guess when we left back in mid june, the temperatures were getting up towards 30, but the humidity was still low.  now the humidity is cranked, and the temperatures hover around 30.  I think we missed the worst of it though, because it actually doesn’t feel that bad out.  True, i figured out you have to walk everywhere MUCH slower, so you dont start sweating.  but otherwise its pleasant.  Then again, ive mostly only been out at night, i dont have to “work” in the sun, and we are indoors with the air con on most of the day……

I also apparently missed my passion fruits season.  i got one measly one left behind on the plant.  and it was delicious!  but yeah, totally missed that boat….  THOUGH….  its full on fruit season.  the great and, sometimes not so great thing, is that all fruits and veggies here are seasonal.  so going to the market yesterday i was overly excited to finally see limes being sold!  Noa and i were like, yes!, we can finally make guacamole with limes…. and then we both realized that its not avocado season and i fell to my knee’s screaming WHYYYYYY……..    (not really.  but im SOOOO freezing limes in order to save them for the avocado season….)

K, so that was a bummer, but then i quickly got over it when i started piling figs, lychee’s, mango’s and watermelons into my bags!  i was so excited, we got some of everything, and when i got home, i thought i would stage them all to get a shot of whats in season at the moment.

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we got watermelon, mango’s, pears, apples, peaches, grapes, 3 types of figs, and lychee’s!  holy moly!  and on top of it all, noa’s parents neighbours were harvesting prickly pear fruit, called Sabras.  I had never had a fruit before, just jam, and they are very tasty! (i had to watch a youtube video on how to peel them) and the mango’s are amazingly plump and sweet.  everything is awesome.  its so nice being somewhere where you can get so much fruit in season, and its CHEAP!!  i think the mango’s were 15 shekels per kilo, so thats like 4 bucks for a kilo?  cray cray.

So what more can we expect from our almost 2 month long vacation adventures?

we still have Sonoma, San Francisco, mainz/wiesbaden and a whopper of a trip to london.

things got pretty hectic towards the end there, with not a lot of down time, so i got way backlogged on processing photos, uploading them and blogging.  but im back and have the time now, so hold tight.