Monday March 1st:

awhile ago we went to visit the shul/ museum here. it wasn't much to say the least, but the shul was pretty nice. they have the same art scrolls as we use which was surprising but they only have services on yom kippur, succot an shavuot and for peoples wedding and bar mitzvah's and stuff, at least that's what the person in the museum said. My dad was learning how to read the Megilla so that he would be able to read it to us on Purim. On the night of Purim we were planning to read it after dinner, but when we were out for dinner our waitress was Jewish. she said that there actually WAS a service at the shul and that she had called about an hour ago to check. Well in the end my dad had to read it anyways. On Sunday we spent most of the day with our friends here Sammy the owner of the hotel's kid and Julie the front desk persons kid. We also caught a frog, which turned out to be poisonous and 2 of Sammy's cats have died from eating the poionous frogs but lucky us we were fine. Also on Saturday it was the independance day and there were huge parades and loud music EVERYWHERE. There is going to be an election here soon and their way of advertizing is they have these cars that are basically speakers on wheels and they go down the streets blasting music really really loud , as in you can't here till a minute later loud.