PURIM II

So a real quick recap from Purim in Jlem Tues 3.10

- struggle to find a sherut. We didnt want to go all the way down to the central station so the 7 of us girls - dressed in our 80s/ ballerina costumes - went to a diff bustation. well it turns out all those sheruts go to nitania! we didnt knwo if we should take a bus and then a cab...or a cab to the bus station to find a sherut..finally some sherut told us they would dirve us for 45 sheckles..wayyy overpriced but we were desperate
- the sherut driver was pretty much deaf and didnt understand anything we asked him! of course he didnt speak like any english and since he was used to driving elsewehere he had no idea where in jerusalem to go
- finally we just tell him to stop, that were close enough and we each pay him and get our change. well he stops for a good 5 minutes and starts yelling at us that one more person has to pay! hes yelling at us for 15 minutse that were trying to rip him off - even though we all watched everyone pay and get cahnge! hes counting his money over and over and kept changing his mind about how much was left...we were soo scared but didnt want to fork over more $ than we had to! finallywe just keep asking him to open the door and he finally does and we run away! the sherut stood there for another 15 min im sure, the pooor man just counting over and over..but we just kept running
- so we walk down ben yehuda street n it was deaddd and no one was in costume! were all pretty hungry and we pass a bakery..there were tons of hamantashen in the window! we run in an d ask if we can buy some..the owner says theyre closed..the register is closed. Please! we ask him..we're teh only ppl in costume! and its Purim! We just would like some hamatashen! haha...Well the nice shop owner hands us a couple bags adn we FILL them with these baked goods for freee and run away again. haha they were a bit hard but delicious of course
- finally we meet up with our friend's friend's friends. ha yup. they take us to one of their friend's apartments..uhhh ya luckily they were very nice to us considering how many degrees we were seperated. we kept taking some of the barakas they had laying out hehe.
- i really wanted to go to this one neighborhood where our guy friends wer but they took us to ben yehdua instead. i guess almost everything wasnt that exciting. it was no florentine - thats for sure! lots of young teenagers were scatterd abut the street...it was massive crowds and they kept coming up to talk to us but they were so immature we could tell tehy were all pre-army age.
- as we're walking btwn ben yehuda, all these firecrackers were going off..we were aimlessly wandering to the other side when i hear a loud noise and A FIRECRACKER HIT MY FRIEND IN THE LEG! so the next hour was spent basically hurdling her around trying to find a bathroom / ice for her to cool and clean her wound.
- our stop in max brenners did mean a shot of free whipped cream in our mouths haha
- finally at like 1:30 am we realized jerusalem sucked and the real gettogehter would be in the morning but alll we wanted to do was go home. we found the other crowd of TLVers and crammed all 12 of us into a 10 person sherut which overcharged us as well. The cab raced home, just in time to hear a call taht some girl thoguht we'd left her behind..oyyy.
- passed out by 3 thank goodness haha