We got to Tel Aviv on July 6th around 2:00 PM after a classic Israeli taxi experience. Our monit driver talked with me the whole time in Hebrew about everything from his son joining the army to Reconstructionism sounding like an easy form of Judaism. Once we got to Tel Aviv it became apparent that he didn't know his way at all. He honked his horn and asked other drivers where to go about every other block. I had a map but he didn't seem to trust it. It was a kind of human GPS system.
After dropping are stuff off at our lovely apartment we had to find something to do until the folks we are renting from were on there way to the US. We had a great afternoon at the beach and then headed way down south to the Dolphinarium to watch the sunset, look at the port of Yaffo and eat watermelon.