The trip was fairly brutal, but we arrived. One of us (not me) slept the entire first leg from DC to London, and was awake for nearly all of our 10-hour layover in Heathrow. We managed to span time taking the free shuttle buses from terminal to terminal, checking out good spots to see planes take off, eating of course and shopping. We were all awake for the second flight from London to Tel Aviv, but it was less than 5 hours so it wasn't too bad. If we had carried our camera on, we would have taken pictures of Lilah sitting on two El Al pillows on her seat so she would be high enough to view Peter Pan 2 times on the screen in the seatback in front of her. The headphones were too small so we attempted to make them fit by stuffing the complimentary bag of Nishnushim (little crackers) between her head and the headphones, which worked pretty well.
The flights were actually ok, but the arrival sucked as our bags didn't arrive (somehow the car seat did, though) and the car rental place was an ordeal as usual. By the time we hit the road it was 7:30 am and we were stuck in stop-and-go traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for what seemed like forever. And then we got here and had to confront the reality of the Jordan Valley weather - it's night here now and it's still registering 90 degrees outside. We crashed this afternoon and ran around outside this evening when it was a bit 'cooler.' Lilah is really excited to be here. She and Safta are watching Lady and the Tramp right now. Hopefully El Al will find our bags tomorrow or soon after so we have clean clothes, presents, camera, all of my handwritten Hazor ground stone notes from years past (yikes), etc.
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