Machane Yehuda

Next week will be our 3 month mark here, and I can't believe I haven't yet written a post about a place that's become a weekly destination- Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's outdoor market.

Eitan and I go there probably once a week (sometimes more). The shuk has the most fresh produce I've ever seen, all really local and in season, and cheap. Like crazy cheap. Recently I bought one kilo (2.2 pounds) of tomatoes for 3 shekels. What?? My weekly shopping list also includes 20 pitas for 10 shekels.  The shuk also has all other kinds of little stands, sit down restaurants, spice shops (one's named Rozmaryn!), bakeries, gummy and candy guys, butchers, fish markets and cheese shops. It's really phenomenal.

This week, because Ami finished up Ulpan (yay!) and has some more free time in his schedule, he was able to join us. I mentioned that my and Ami's shuk experiences really sum up the differences in the way we are. I come with a list- I look around for the best prices and the best looking stuff and go ahead and buy. A lady on a mission. Of course, if I see something that looks particularly interesting, I'll get it, but Ami, well, the whole world is interesting to Ami. He's a wanderer. He just walks around, smelling, touching, tasting, and of course pulling out the camera playing paparazzi.  Sometimes, this dawdling makes me insane, but for some reason this week, I was (kind of) okay for a few minute delay here and there between picking up the items on the all important to-do list.

The good news is, we were together this week, so the Rozmaryn family not only got the groceries we need, but also some pretty great shots of the morning and the shuk's offerings. And of course the obligatory family self portrait. Because my mom has recently decreed that every post on this blog must include at least one photo of Eitan.