what is it about vacations and rain?

We were thinking about it and all of the big vacations we have been on have included rain...

Hawaii it rained (I know your saying it rains all the time there, but we did have

to rearrange things becasue of rain).

Williamsberg (spring break with Sam, Ash and Bubbie) it rained although we did

get some nice umbrellas as souvenirs.

Boston in 2007... it rained we have yellow ponchos as souvenirs of that trip.

Then there was the cruise of 2010 where the schedule was changed because of

hurricane Thomas and it rained in one port.

So why should we be surprised that there are thunderstorms for our

first day in Israel....yeah... we have it all,

wind, rain, thunder and lightening.

So we started the morning driving up to

Rosh Hanikra and the rain was

sporadic sometimes just drizzle sometimes

heavy down pour sometimes nothing at all. When we got t

here the wind was unbelievable and they were closed. It seems that they just don't feel that the aerial tram would be safe in high wind, go figure? s

o we looked over the cliff at the waves crashing.

We realized there would be no Rosh Hanikra this trip and decided to see if it was raining in Akko. Well as I am sure you can guess by the title of this post there was rain in Akko,
not just a little rain but heacvy rain and wind by wind I mean real wind the kind that turns you umbrella inside out. So here we are driving round and round not able to find a parking spot (I know why are we looking to park if the weather is so bad, just chalk it up to "in for a dime in for a dollar"). So round and round and round we went from one round-about to another and then all the way around and back through the same streets again. But we found a place to park and readied our selves and got out.

We read the book we knew Akko was a
walking tour and that most of the time is outside... but hey who thinks of these things we were on an adventure. Well saner minds did prevail so no tour, but we did have brunch (well a meal at 10:00a.m.)at a little stand on El-Jazzar and waited to see if the weather would change....it did we had sunshine for about 10 min and then the rain came again and this time harder. Since we were already soaked we decided that the rain won and we were going back to Amirim.

Where by 12:30 we were back in our cabin having a cup of tea and taking some well needed naps....and so is the tale of our first day in Israel.