We're here!

Our first meal together at the Residence Beach Hotel.

After a five hour flight to Newark, a seven hour layover in the airport, and a nine+ hour flight from Newark to Tel Aviv, we have arrived! Everyone's luggage made it as well, always a relief. This lovely group showed great patience and care for each other as we maneuvered that unusual 24 hours together.


It was great to have our guide Naim be there to greet us as we left the baggage and security areas. Our bus is comfortable and with some room to spare, another plus.


On the drive from the airport to our hotel we saw signs for many familiar businesses - Toys r Us, Office Depot, Sprint, Nike, to name a few, along with several MacDonald's! We were in the middle of Tel Aviv's rush hour traffic on some sophisticated freeways. We are spending the night at Netanya on the Mediterranean Sea, which is just outside our windows. We look forward to waking up to that view in the morning. Oh, by the way, the weather prediction is for sunny skies and upper 60s/lower 70s tomorrow  Should be beautiful!


We are grateful that all has gone so well to this point and look forward to what lies before us!