Being in Israel in Yom Haatzmaut is all about the Barbecues, or mangals. People go to popular parks as early as 5am to stake out a prime spot.
We decided to skip the chaos of the parks and have an afternoon barbecue at Esty's - complete with a gas grill and an amazing front terrace that overlooks the Kenesset. It was a beautiful day, warm, but breezy and not a cloud in the sky.
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| There were four planes there. And awesome photography :). |
On Yom Haatzmaut the Israeli airforce shows off their moves with fly overs around the whole country. It's a good thing it's a small country. Around noon the planes started overhead in amazing formations, coming close together and diverting, etc. It was amazing. Eitan was so excited he was just bouncing up and down screaming Airplane, which sound more like eh-pane, but we knew.
The barbecue was great, delicious and we learned that Eitan seriously likes chicken legs. At a barbecue back in Kemp Mill a couple weeks ago, he couldn't get enough of chicken cut up that Gadi was feeding him, but here he upped the ante and just took hold of the
pulkey himself and went at it. And he wouldn't put it down for anything. It was hilarious. Especially as I remember that while I was pregnant with him, even the thought of a chicken bone would send me to the nearest barf bag.
And of course, this city was covered in flags. Big ones on buildings, weird vertical ones with long blue stripes and a small star in the center (that just looked off to me), as I mentioned before, flags on car windows, and for the first time I noticed flag "cases" for the side mirrors on cars. Now, these seem crazy to me because they overhang onto the mirrors a bit, and from what I've seen of Israeli drivers, well...they need all the mirror they can get.
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