Jess, Jess, and Jess do Dalyat al Karmel

After hebrew today, i went out with Jessie-Arizona and Jessica-Florida to Dalyat-Al-Karmel, the druze village, which is a fifteen minute bus-ride.

That is, if the bus comes at all

Egged.co.il says that the 022 bus to Dalyat al Karmel is supposed to come at 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30, every day. Only at those three times, and there is no bus on the way back from Dalya to the university. Oh, and by the way, the bus fare is more expensive. By like a dollar, but it's still annoying not to be able to use the bus pass that I've already paid for.
Anyways, we got to the bus stop, which is actually not in the university like the website says, but in fact on the road just outside the university. And we waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Because see, we forgot to account for Druzi Standard Time, whereby the bus comes not 5 or 10 minutes, but a full half hour after schedule.
Excellent.

Whatever. We got off the bus, toured around the shuk, tested the patience of one very lovely old woman selling dayyagim (fishermen's pants), none of which suited us, went in to all the little tourist trap-py shops, just for fun and to poke around. After tiring of that, we went to a little restaurant, called the Halabi Brother's restaurant. Here's our bill

what we paid for:
-shishkabob-20 NIS
-Humus plate-15 NIS
-Fanta-5 NIS
-Goldstar beer-10 NIS
Total: 50 NIS

What we were served:
-10 pitas, free
-5 laffas, free
-1 plate of 10 falafel ball, free
-4 plates (count them, 4) of pickles and olives, free. Really big plates. Like, at least 20 pickles in total
-Shishkabob+salad+fries (and he was going to bring us a "bigger plate of fries", for free, before we told him that there was no way we could eat that, too)
-Humus and techina with olive oil
-Soda pop
-Beer
-Water with mint leaves, free.
-3 different kinds of baklawa, free. And we probably could have gotten more if we asked.

The moral of the story is, I'm going to have a big party at some point, and it's going to be at the Misadat Achim Halabi in Dalyat-al-Karmel. And everyone's invited. Date to be determined.

- Jess-Toronto