Two beach days in the same week!? Oh yeah! Eilat was a lot of fun (that was for you again Dad : ] I’m getting pretty good aren’t I). As my roommate Shannon put it, we went snorkeling off of the coast of Africa on Sunday! How cool does that sound? It was almost as cool it sounds. Eilat is one of the finger-shaped bays that juts up from the Red Sea. From where we were snorkeling we could see Jordan across the relatively narrow sea and Egypt (i.e. Africa)was just 20 miles in the opposite direction. So cool! The water was a gorgeous aqua blue. The coral reef we snorkeled around was cool but not very colorful. The best part was the fish! There were so many different kinds and colors. I saw lots of Dori’s and other fish that I’m sure showed up on Finding Nemo at some point. My favorite was these huge schools of tiny little fish that shimmered whenever they moved. If I were a fish I’m pretty sure I’d want to be that kind. It would be pretty great to just hang out with a huge group of friends all day and look like transparent sparkling curtains whenever you moved.
At Tel Aviv on Thursday I didn’t get sunburned at all. I figured I was pretty much resilient to the sun, so at Eilat in my hurry to get to the water I decided sunscreen wasn’t terribly important. I was wrong. I turned a nice berry red all over my back except for the few random white splotches that I managed to dab some sunscreen on. Whoops.
Oh, that does sound like so much fun. Wish I was there with you! Ouch, take care of that sunburn!!
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