Canada Center.

Yesterday my family, my dad's cousin and his family, and my cousins Alon and Gali, and their family, all went to the Canada Center. No It's not in Canada, it's a place about 20 minutes drive north. It has iJump complex, which is a trampoline park, bowling, swimming pool, cinema and Ice skating rink. Since we've already went bowling 3 times we just went Ice skating and trampolining. Ice Skating was really fun but really hard. Since I've only been Ice Skating once in my life 2 years ago, it took me a long time to get off of the side rail; although, after I let go of the side rail I think I did pretty good for my first try in 2 years.

When we got to iJump I straight away started trying to slam dunk the basketball. Sadly I was a few inches short and couldn't slam dunk. My favourite part was that all the trampolines where just close enough so I could try and jump from one to another. The trick is to go diagonal but try and mix it up a bit so It's not boring. The funniest part was when I started digging a hole in the foam pit so I got be in the air for longer and found a good pair of glasses at the bottom that looked really new. After that we got some ice cream and we all had a go in the massage chair which was really relaxing.

Chocolate Madness

As you can probably tell from my last post, my family really likes chocolate. And as you can probably tell from the title, today we made and ate chocolate. We went to a place called Shulman in kibbutz, Dafna, which is really close to where we're staying. It has a really cool art museum where everything is made out of chocolate. There's also a wall that has some really cool information about chocolate, like in 1948 they made my all time favourite chocolate spread; and I'm not talking Nutella. The chocolate
spread in Israel can be fed to the gods, or at least that's what I think. Chocolate spread started when 5 brothers opened a small factory that sold sweets: Tahini, Waffles, Halva and Jams. Over time the factory decided to start focusing on chocolate spread, The Dawn. Already 3 generations of Israeli children have grown up with it.

After we checked out the museum we went to actually make chocolate. It was so much fun with lots of friendly chocolate; I  mean people, I mean lots of friendly, yummy, people. Anyway, there were a few people from America that looked about 20. They were really nice to us and we had lots of fun with them. First, we had to choose a picture on the table and I chose the cartoon pig. Then we went over the outline with melted dark chocolate and colored in the middle with white chocolate so it made a cool background effect. Then we had 4 small chocolate squares that we could mold into something and decorate. I made 2 chocolate balls with coconut and 2 squares decorated wit dark and white chocolate. We got to take everything we made home and I had a great time, like always.

Escape Room Paris - Chocolate Galore

Yesterday was so so fun! We went to another Escape room in Rosh Pina which is another old city in our area of the upper Galilee. We had to chase a terrorist group who escaped from Paris. It was even more fun than the one where we had to find the Mona Lisa. There were 3 rooms. The first room felt like a train and we zoomed through that one in 10 minutes. The second room was the hardest. We spent about 15 minutes all doing one question. There were 4 locked chests with holes on the top, which we had to smell and match to a specific spice out of 20 different spices in a glass box, in order to unlock codes. In the end we found out that we actually got the question right on the first go but changed it before we put the code in the lock. The last room was the most fun with really cool digital keys and a bunker that you need to hide in when you plug the bomb in. There's a button that explodes the bomb and when we walked out there was smoke everywhere and everything was broken and thrown around as if the bomb actually exploded. It was so fun and we're going to try and go to one more escape room before we leave.

Chocolate Galore

When we finished the Escape Room our parents showed us a really good chocolate restaurant that made my mouth water. There was some of the best chocolates I have ever eaten in there. There was also some really cool art in there which was nice. My favourite chocolate was the chocolate ball that my mum and I shared. We got 15 chocolates that we shared but we could of had 30 but we stopped ourselves. After we finished eating we went to a lookout to watch the sun set. The lookout was beautiful with a great view of the sun set. 

Grottoes - Achziv Banana Beach

Yesterday we went on a car trip to Rosh Hanikra (head of the Grottoes), which is the most north western corner of Israel. To visit the cliff  we went on the shortest and steepest cable car in the world!  The view from the cable car was breathtaking and that's just the start. After that we went into the caves, which are called grottoes. They were created by a lot of subterranean tremors that cracked the rock, with waves that hit the rock at a force of 250 tonnes per square meter! Rainwater flows through the cracks and create the caves. The inside of the grottoes were amazing and I didn't know where to look first. The water was really clean and clear and in one place there's a bridge and sometimes high waves splash you which is really fun. 

Inside the Grotto.

Cable Car.

Banana Beach

After that we went to banana beach for the rest of the day. Banana beach is much different from Wainui beach, The sea is warm for a start, there's a volleyball net, a massage area, It's rated 4.4 stars, there's a bar on the beach, a restaurant 2 minutes walk from the beach, and cool huts that give you shade. There's also lots more people in the water but the place is so big it doesn't matter. But definitely my least favourite, seaweed. It was so fun we must of been there for 5 hours! My favourite part was how lots of the people that were there were so nice. Like the people who were siting next to us gave us watermelon and at the end gave us 3 drinks.