Tuesday was Independence Day. In the evening we walked into town to see the celebration, it was 8pm and people were still setting up. At the top and bottom of Ben Yehuda Street were musical groups, in between tables were being set along the street to sell stuff. Groups of kids were squirting each other and, anyone who got close, with Silly String and snow in a can, they had oversized inflated hammers and were bonking each other on the head. The young boys were mostly after the pretty girls, and the girls were concentrating on the boys. It was fun to watch, we only got hit a few times. We went into a sweet shop and had a pastry and coffee and watched out the window as the crowd grew. More and more people came by with greater and greater amounts of Silly string and snow on them, it began to look like a blizzard out there. We left the sweet shop and headed straight for one of the tables selling the white ammunition. We needed a can for self defense, besides we might see some of the kids from school and needed to be prepared. Also florescent tubes (like the ones they sell on the Fourth of July) were being sold, some of them were about an inch long, and fit nicely in the mouth, we each got a green one. I found that if you kept your mouth shut until some one was right in front of you, and then made a big green florescent smile, you could get all kinds of reactions, some times a laugh, and some times a spray with snow. Sure enough, there was the group from the school, we got up close to them and then smiled our big green smiles. It's hard to explained what happened next, but soon we all looked like snow men, and were slipping and sliding on the white goo all over the ground. Soon anyone on the street was either spraying and bonking, or being sprayed and bonked. It didn't matter if you knew them or not, if you were there, you were fair game. After wandering around and talking, and spraying, and bonking, we started home. About half way home, BANG! BOOM! FLASH! Fire works! There was a wall to sit on and we watched the show, then continued to make our way home. It was after 11pm and I was tired and sticky, the snow on us had "melted" and all that was left was sticky goo in our hair, and on our face and clothes. Shower time! About midnight I was in bed and heard more fire works going off but was too tired to get up and go to the roof to watch. Music could be heard coming from all directions around the city. I was so tired the sound didn't even bother me...........Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z ........
Shalom..........Bernice