No party like a Shabbat dance party

Shabbat again, this week an out, so Hayley and I went north to spend the weekend in Motzkin (a suburb of Haifa) with a friend of mine. In the end, my friend would not actually be at the apartment for Shabbes, but at his parents’, where his new niece would also be for Shabbat. Understandable. Making ourselves at home, after eating our Shabbat dinner, Hayley and I indulged in some spirits (in the form of Greygoose) which led to our having a loud, energetic song and dance party in the living for an hour or so. What began with a reenactment of a scene from The Proposal (to the window, to the wall) led to an all out party, complete with Spice Girl’s songs, Brittany Spears, Christina Aguilara, Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain, Rent, Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof, the Black Eyed Peas, Ace of Base and a medley of other 90’s pop artists, with a cameo appearance by the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

After exhausting ourselves, and our BAC, we concluded the night playing Connect 4 and Phase 10. Although we had planned to go to Schul the next morning, and after that to go visit the zoo my friend had shown us the day before, by the time we finally woke up at 11:30 the next morning, we were too late for schul and then utterly unmotivated to get dressed and go out. It was clear that the zoo was not going to happen. After lunch, we got back into bed, played a game of Phase 10, and read/slept for the rest of Shabbat. I managed to read an entire book again (Running with Scissors). I think reading on Shabbat will become a tradition of mine…if I finish a book every Shabbat, it would be a good thing. When T came home Saturday night, the three of us decided to go to the mall to get something to eat, and to see the mall, of course, and then watching half of V for Vendetta before going to bed. Although T had to leave before 6 am the next day to go to university, Hayley and I slept in again, getting up finally around 11 and heading out of the apartment for the train station, heading down to Tel Aviv to meet up with Jen and Anna.