The Very Hungry Driver, Post 5 Summer 2013

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Today was Abby’s last full day in Israel, so the day was devoted to helping her run some last errands and get the stuff she needed to bring back to the States.  This post is inspired by the magnum opus of Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

On Sunday morning the driver woke up.  He had a cup of coffee coffee and a bowl of denola (what his 2 year old friend Ofek calls Granola).  He drove his wife and daughter to Jerusalem, where they went to Marzipan on Rachel Imeinu and he had a Cappuccino and two small pastries.  Then they went to Mahane Yehuda.  The hungry driver ate two tastes of coffee flavored halva, bought some dried apricots, two new kippot (Abby was buying other stuff), browsed in a wine shop but didn’t buy anything and then they went downtown.  

Downtown, the very hungry driver went shopping for 2 weddings gifts, other thank you presents and then he ate half of a falafel at Moshiko and medium carrot juice from Tutti Fruiti at the top of the Ben Yehuda midrachov (pedestrian mall) (Abby had a frozen yogurt at Katzefet and Judy had some kind of iced coffee drink).

Then the very hungry driver and his family went to Yanai St near the Jaffa Gate, where they bought a new tablecloth, 4 more kippot, a plastic tallit bag cover and an Armenian tile.

The very hungry driver and his family got back in the car, drove back to the German Colony where they met their friend Jacob Blumenthal at Caffit (which has moved across the street and may be buoyed by its reputation more than by its current offerings).  There the very hungry driver had a glass of red grapefruit juice and a bowl of French Onion soup (Judy and Abby has some kind of cheese dish which they said was only ok).

The very hungry driver drove to Har Homa to drop some donated dance shoes off with Arnie Draiman for later pick up by Afikim BaNegev in Sderot, stopped to fill the car with gas and returned to Srigim, where he and his family were invited to visit Etti and Allain Yifrach for dessert.  

There the very hungry driver had some watermelon and a piece of cake.  The driver slept for two hours before taking Abby to the airport at 1:45 a.m. at which time he turned around and went back to Srigim (having to wait about 5 minutes for the gate to be opened) and went back to sleep at 3:30 A.M.  He did not turn into a butterfly.  In 3.5 hours he returns to the airport to collect Michelle, and then they go on to two days in Tel Aviv.

Happy Tu b’Av!