the not so fast fast day

Hello fellow readers. I apologize on behalf of myself and my trip-mates for slacking in our blogging duties. Yesterday wasn't such an eventful day because of the fast and by the time it was over we were too exhausted to relate whatever details were even worth sharing. Essentially we sat on a bus for the bulk of our day. We woke up at around 830 and were ushered into our cab to the bus stop about an hour later by Jimmy- the everso friendly owner of the charming bed and breakfast we slept at that night- who was wearing a chef's outfit for reasons unclear. We probably missed out on a very serious breakfast...If only it weren't a fast day. O well.

From 10:15 to 5:30 we watched the open fields of lush greenery within its mountainous frame as we made our way from Dingle to Galway- another county on the western coast, north of Dingle. We then checked into our lovely suite in the Carlton Hotel--a well deserved concession to team Hotel after Sundays hike. There, we passed the time with some chatting, reading and nap time. Before we knew it it was 11:30- time to break the fast! We broke it on gourmet peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, and way too much chocolate.

Whoever thinks we may be losing weight on this trip due to lack of food and sahar's boot-camp-itinerary are mistaken. We've been compensating for lack of food with Rocko' never-ending supply of Caramel Cadbery and then justifying it by pretending that we're still burning calories from our 8 hour hike on Sunday. And just in case we're not doing enough damage here, Deena has already declared that the team goal in Israel is to eat our way through the country. So we're in a negative situation.

So that was our day yesterday. It's unclear what the heck we're doing here in Galway and why we trekked for 7 hrs to get here. This place is super random but I'm glad we're here. I'm too tired and lazy to describe our wild day of fun from today. Someone else will have to take the reigns for that one. Stay tuned though!

Cheers
~Mimi



DEE- I've been getting some personal gchats/ bbms/ emails etc that people miss my posts. And I think that's also clear from the amount of votes I've been getting so I will put in some input on the fast day. After getting off the first bus and arriving at the station we were informed our next bus wud not be showing up for another hour. What we do for an hour? Mimi is in the process of converting to chait so she listened to his shiurim on the essence of man??, sahar said some tehilim, rocko stared out into space, and I read my ever so intense book "19 minutes" which ia giving me nightmeres! We all didn't do much talking to eachother yestrday in fear of being snappy due to our hunger/ exhaustion. It was more of a day to ourselevs w some major introspection (and random people who went to mmy that we forgot abt who kept popping up in our heads) I left my white nike headband that I work out w on every single bus and had to go bak on every single bus to retrieve it so that was eventful and finally we got to the magnificent carlton hotel! We intended to wake up before 9 to get some grocery shopping for after the fast done but since mimi and I can't wake up, and our fearless leader sahar overlsept we were left w nothing but peanutbutter. (And mimi dedicated abt 20 lines to chocolate which I don't even eat...or cheese...or tuna...but that's a whole different story. Do I plan to eat my way through israel like mimi said? No, that's so 4 years ago. Do I plan to be fleishichs once in a while especially before the 9 days? Heck freakin yes!! And what a better acitivry for after the fast than to watch white chicks on an ipad??---well we were pretty zonked and all drifted off pretty soon after breakfast. Ok I gotta go to sleep, we're hitting up guiness tmrw and I needa be on my a game!
"Cheers"
Dk