oh I am definately a dork... hahahah
Mazal Tov on your XC meet Lindsay- even though you are at one "caro" 's house now (I got you on my buddy list.... my sn in Hateatron )
if you guys shell out some dough I can take you with me to sharm!! You will get free boarding on the Kibbutz, and I speak arabic and hebrew, so I could be your personal traslator. its only about... 1555$ a flight from newark.... then I could rent a car and drive us all down to Eilat... its six hours drive, but guys will be zonked out of your minds anyway. Maybe I will make you get up and hike Machtesh Ramon

.. We'll get to Eilat, then we can say hi to all my family on the Kibbutz, next day maybe do some Kitesurfing in eilat, maybe the next day go to Petra in Jordan, then I'll take you camping and sand boarding on my favourite desert sand dunes. after those... four days, we will hike it up across the border and go down to sharm, and stay there. I will get us a free nights stay in a tent by charming the local bedouins. then its early in the morning drive up to the water, and spend the next couple hours under the water..... get some felafel for SI and get back under..... repeat for the next seven days, and come back up to Eilat. Then my family will feed you up to your eyes and take you shopping and treat you to some good old fashion Israeli Hospitality, and we will be on our way to the cool spots up north.... We'll go to Masada, Ein Gedi, and the Dead Sea.... but ladies, unless you are like masocisitic don't shave your legs. then we will climb up to jerusalem, you all can see the ehhh whats it called, the Jesus cross walk, I will go to the Kotel (some people call it the Wailing wall). then we can romp through the old city, you guys can buy your t-shirts and

, and then BAM - out we go. then I'll take you up north to haGalill, then a bit of TLV where the party at, you guys can get totally

(I'll get the drinks and be your DD... common curteousy) before we all go home.
sound good to all of you? You can see the REAL israel- not whats on CNN or BBC.
some pictures?
http://www.partner.org.il/eilat/map.jpg - Eilat
http://www.suntours.com.jo/sinai map.JPG - Sharm
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:6UOGnp41XL4J:www.culturefocus.com/jordan20b_small.jpg - Petra (recognize from Indiana Jones?)
http://www.clauss.dk/Billeder/Israel/Eilat_beach_with_a_view_to_Jordan.jpg - Eilat... good view
http://irupe.com/other/alyn-2002/Day4/SmallPics/021030-PICT0007-rot-sm.jpg - Makhtesh ramon
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/images/ibex.jpg - an ibex... I will try not to hit one on the drive down... but they are soo stupid!
http://www.balgawi.com/Jordan/images/Dead_Sea1.jpg - floatin in the Dea Sea. Can't swim? no problem!
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/archaeology/eingedi/Pic/p1625e.gif- ein gedi
http://mosaic.lk.net/g-masada.html - A history... gruesome history... crazy zealots.
http://www.hamerstudios.com/judy/Gallery 1/images/Rooftops of Old City,Jerusalem.jpg - jerusalem
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/israel/images/tiberiab.gif - the Galil or Gallalee
http://home.wanadoo.nl/maroth/tanachtbeach.jpg Tel Aviv.
ahhh you see, I do this a lot. In my head. It keeps me from missing home publicly and getting the "awww shut up, Zack!" 's