hanging out in the city

For a change, when coming into Tel Aviv Hayley and I missed the stop we had intended to get off at, and so had to get off at Hahagana, the Central Station, which is in actuality anything but central, but rather very large. It was a nice enough day, so we decided to walk to meet up with Jen, which allowed us to walk along Shenkin Street and admire all the shop windows. Along the way, coincidentally, we also ran into Tanya on Allenby.
We finally met up with Jen around 4, dropping off our things at the apartment where she was staying and hanging around to watch Super Sweet 16 on MTV for a little while before heading out again.
Eventually we went to my favorite eatery to get dinner—the sandwich shop. Amir, our sandwich guy, was just leaving as we got there, but we were able to hello before he went home and went off to miluim (reserve service) the next day, and Hayley and I were able to get our delicious deli delights. After we were satisfied, we went to meet Anna and Omer to catch up. Hayley then went to a concert with a friend of hers, while Jen and I stayed at Omer’s place for the night, catching up with Anna and each other. Since the dangerously torrential rain predicted for the next day seemed not to be coming, after sleeping in, again, Jen, Anna and I went for a small breakfast at a local café and to do a bit of shopping. I got a Golda Meir tshirt. Happily, since I was staying in Tel Aviv again, in the afternoon I met Nadav (my cousin) for lunch. While we were inside the restaurant, there was a short downpour. Nadav explained that he loved the rain, but conceded that his having a car made him less inconvenienced by the rain. Also in the restaurant with us was a cat, probably owned by someone who at least worked there, who flirted around amongst the different patrons, settling in Nadav’s lap for a while; although he protested, I got a picture of this.