On Friday: On Friday we went to the Turkish baths! It was so fun. We started out in the baths
that were inside. We were sorely disappointed with them, they were not warm at all despite being fed from a hot spring. All the baths inside, there were like 5-7, were like that. But then we discovered the pools outside...The pools outside were great! There were three of them, and they were all really big, the size of the deep swimming pool in YMCA s. The one that Dad stayed in was really fun. It actually had a hot temperature! I didn't like it because I couldn't breathe very well in it. I have athsma, and the minerals in the water sometimes make people's chest heavy. The second pool was really deep and only for people who were doing laps, so I didn't go in it. The third pool was fun. the temperature wasn't hot and it wasn't cold, sorta like a cross between warm and cool. It didn't have as much of the minerals in it as the first pool, and the hight of the water came up to my shoulders. That was the pool I spent the most time in.
The Turkish baths were really fun. We are so going there again!
On Saturday: On Saturday we went to the flea market. It was inside City Park, just as the baths were. We found it after a while of walking around. Th flea market is only on weekends, from 7am to 1pm. It was inside this big fenced-in open-air space. Everyone there was selling something different-their own little trinkets, they weren't employed by a store to sell their stuff, they did their own thing. We went there to buy some clothes for me since I don't have a lot of warm stuff. We ended up finding a sweater, socks, and a pair of pants. The sweater and socks were easy, but the pants were more difficult to find. At first we just looked at jeans. It was hard without dressing rooms, and you can't judge whether jeans are going to fit you, you have to try them on because the legs couldn't fit, or the waist would be too tight or too loose... the possibilities were endless! Finally I said 'Just ditch the jeans, let's find some sweatpants or something.' So we did!
You know, the flea market is just a bunch of tables and stuff! It's not like there are shops that you go into. There are piles of clothes on some tables where you just root through them for anything you can find, and some places have clothes hanging up and on the table... it's not like a mall, OK?
(P.S.-Eli, if you're reading this, know that you are going to love the flea market!)
On Sunday: On Sunday we did two things- we went to a fringe festival and to a Symphony.
Festival: Dad and I went walking because it was a beautiful day. Originally, we were going to go
shopping and to buy tickets for this symphony. For the whole time we were here there has been a spring festival going on, and Sunday night was the last night of it, so we decided to go to the symphony. After we bought the tickets, we decided to go to a fringe festival we had heard about. We wandered around for a while before we finally came to where we wanted to be. The fringe festival was great, there were all these little wooden of thatched huts of varying sizes with all kinds of things to sell in them! the only difference from the flea market was that the people selling the stuff were hired by a company to sell the stuff. when we were there we ate and we watched some dancers dance. First there was some ladies in leopard-print clothes and they were dancing. They were halfway through the dance when we got there, so we didn't know what it was all about. Then we were eating and a building was blocking us from watching the show. But after we ate we watched. We watched these 2-4 long Indian dances preformed by three ladies in Indian dance (see picture). They were so good! I'm not just saying that, they really had talent. After a while we got up and left.Symphony: The symphony rocked! We left home an hour early. We got on the bus and tried to get off at the right stop. Now, we didn't know where we were supposed to go, we only had an idea of an area on the map. So, we wandered around and got lost. Finally we asked someone for directions. Then we walked some more, until we finally came to it. The building was huge, and pretty stylish. When we were approaching, we saw a whole bunch of people in front of the doors. Dad leaned down and told me: 'See all those people? They're all be sitting in front of us!'. That was because we got the two seats in the back row- the only two that were next to each other when we got the tickets! They were really good seats.
We sorta got lost finding our way to the seats, because we had to go up all these stairs and around U-turns and down hallways before we came to the doors of our section of seats.
The symphony rocked! There were songs played by Bartok Bela, Eotvos Peter, Igor Stravinsky, and Richard Wagner. I recognized some of the songs from the movie Fantasia. By far, Richard Wagner's composition was my favorite. That's sorta wierd, because for years playing Wagner was outlawed in Israel because he was Hitler's favorite composer. Now, of course, you can play him, but back then you couldn't. The Symphony was awesome. I am so glad we went to it.
Present Day: So, that's what we did! Next Saturday, Dad and I are going to Amsterdam, because Dad is working for the National Criminal Court of the Hague, and he needs to go there to get some stuff done. I can't wait!
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