Thursday February 24:

Well… I was the next one to get sick. Yesterday we went snorkeling in Sosua. We hired a boat to take us out to these reefs where there were thousands and thousands of fish. It was so amazing and there was fish of all kinds and sea horses, puffer fish and these really cool fish that are dark purple with dark bright blue on the rims of them since they kind of looked like someone flattened them.

Monday February 22:

nosotros vamos a la playa.

Sunday February 21:

Well… every ones sick! There’s a weird stomach virus going around and almost all of us have gotten sick. First my mom, then my dad, then Micah, then Allie and now who knows who’s next. Just hope it’s not me. Other than that it’s been raining for 3 days, and the Kirsh’s are leaving today.

Friday February 19:
For dinner we went to this place called Papi’s. Last time we went there my mom got food poisoning so now my dad has food poisoning (we didn’t know it was from there, but now its pretty clear). When we were walking there it started to pour rain and all of us were just in t-shirts and shorts, then when we got there they sat us at a terrible table. The table was in the very corner of the restaurant right behind the bathroom and garbage pile it smelled very… apatizing, the annoying part was that they had sat 2 families before us when we were waiting and then told us they didn’t. they finally moved us upstairs and there was these three people singing (there are people who walk around the beach singing to people when they are eating dinner) in the intervals of the songs he would quack. We couldn’t understand why he was quacking and were laughing so hard. Then the guy started quacking to Leah and this one time he snuck up behind her and made this huge quack and she screamed so loud, this woman turned around and kept saying “what happened?” but we were laughing to hard to answer. Then we were joking when we said to Leah “go quack her” but she actually did it (keep in mind we don’t know this lady). At the same time as all this was going on we were playing go fish which really didn’t work seeing as everyone was cheating. The lady got up to go to the bathroom and quacked Leah, who screamed again. Leah waited hiding near the staircase for when the lady was going to come up, to quack her. She didn’t come up and had went home or something so we had to leave. On the walk home theres this little bar with a dance floor and Leah went in and was dancing for about 5 minutes. It was probably one of the funniest m0ments of my life!

This is a picture of my baby cousin, Benjamin Reuben Ordower. He had his briss only a few days ago because he was jondist so they had to wait. Even thought he already has a name my dad is still convinced his name is Ari Olympis (Ari after him and Olympis for the Olympics)

This is a picture of me holding Benjamin and Micah annoying him. 

These are  past journals that I forgot to post. 

Thursday February 18:

Today we did a lot of homework and then went to the beach. It was a pretty uneventful day. In the evening we went to Vela where they have a really good game selection and played foozball and darts. when Adam was playing darts he somehow managed to get a dart stuck into his hand and had to go home to get it disenfected. While we were out for dinner my sister stayed home to babysit a little boy named Tristen. Tristen's dad's name is Sasha, their family has a lot in common with ours, he came here to escape the olympics, he lives in Whistler and built the Athletes Village...

Tuesday, February 16:

Today when we woke up we did our daily morning service, which takes about an hour, then we went to kits beach. The people who came yesterday’s names are Kirsh, Marta, Ben and Leah, they came with us to kite beach because their dad (Kirsh) kite boards. He didn’t have a very good start though because he launched it wrong and put a whole in it. Since it was not a very windy day people were flying pretty big kits (someone had a 17!). My dad and my brother Jed both had lessons. Last year Jed had Lilo as a teacher but this year he has someone else because Lilo broke 2 of his knuckles, last year my dad had this teacher who did this sport called underwater hockey. Under water hockey is basically where there’s a big pool with hockey lines marked on it, you have like a 1-foot stick and you swim and try and hit the puck in the net while holding your breath. At the beach we buried Leah and then sculpted her a big pregnant persons body.

Saturday February 13th,

Today is my birthday! In the morning we did a Shabbat service and then had breakfast. Later on we went to the beach and all got sunburns from being out in the sun the whole day. For dinner we went to a place called Lax. this weekend is the Kite Boarding for Kids (kb4k) charity event so they had this big thing at Lax, there was a big Red Bull tent (Red Bull sponsors a lot of extreme sports, kite boarding included), a fashion show of the places that donated things, a band and even more stuff. It was a great birthday and now I’m 12! That brings with it a lot of responsibilities.

What i've done so far...

Viernes Febrero 12^th :

Nosotros vamos a la playa Kite Beach, nosotros traemos una mochilla con nos ropa y el jeugeutes. Nosotros tambien nadamos en la piscine. Lo esta divertido.

Thursday February 11th:

Today we had a sleep in, and then Micah and I went swimming. We went first to the cold small pool, then the big cold pool, then the hot tub, then the cold pool. We swam for about 3 and half hours and then came home and had lunch. After that we went to Kite Beach. Kite beach is mainly for kite boarding and sort of for windsurfing, it is basically the windy beach. My dad is learning how to kite board, but there wasn’t enough wind so we went to this place where they have a gym and yoga studio so my parents could do that while we were on the beach.

 

Wednesday February 10th:

Today we went grocery shopping and then spent the rest of the day at the beach and getting used to everything. We went out for lunch to a place called Claro, and out for dinner at a place called Voy Voy, it is the restaurant of a place called Vela. Vela is the place where you can rent equipment for all kinds of water sports, but mainly windsurfing.

Tuesday February 9th:

Today we flew to the Dominican Republic to the airport in Puerto Plata and then drove to out hotel in Cabarete. We are staying at a place called El Magnifico.           

Here is the link to the website:

http://www.hotelmagnifico.com/                

We went for dinner at a place called Cafe Pitu where they mostly serve pizza and fish.

Monday February 8th:

Today we went to Casa Loma. It is this beautiful castle that a man named Sir Henry Mill Pellet. He made a fortune by harnessing the power of Niagra falls and then making the first electric street lamp. He planned for it to be huge with 100 rooms and for it to only cost him 250,000$ although the normal house then cost 2,000$. He started to run out of money, and the house that was supposed to only cost 250,000$ had already cost him 3.5 million dollars. He was forced to borrow money from the bank and ended up three million dollars in debt. The city didn’t know what to do with the unfinished castle and decided to finish parts of it and put it on display as a museum. Sir Henry and his wife Lady Mary only got to enjoy their castle for about 10 years before they had to move out. Lady Mary died of a heart problem, and when Sir Henry Mill Pellet died it was the grandest thing the city of Toronto had seen in a long time. There were 1000’s of soldiers and people lined the streets to say their last goodbyes to him.

Here is the link to the website:

http://www.casaloma.org/

Sunday February 7th:

We went to visit my Aunt for most of the day (she just had a baby boy). While most of my family was visiting my dad was busy sleeping on the couch, and my brother Jed was busy getting into trouble. He had decided to go to my cousins Yeshiva for the day (it is a very serious Yeshiva, and they have school every day except Friday and Saturday. There school goes from 7am-6pm but on Thursday form 7am-9: 30pm.) He managed to get himself expelled from a school he was just visiting.

Saturday February 6th:

We didn’t do much because it was Shabbat. Most of my family went to Shul and then we had lunch at my Uncle’s and Aunt’s.

Friday February 5th:

Toronto! We stopped in Toronto for a (5 day) pit stop. All of my dad’s side of the family and most of my moms side live in Toronto, so we visited with family for about half the day and then started preparing for Shabbat, seeing that it comes around 5:20 here.

This is a trilingual blog so I will be writing in English, Hebrew and sometimes (very rarely) Spanish.

Because of technical issues the pictures will be coming soon