Still in Israel...

The Mega-Event was two nights ago. It was more over the top than usual. We waited a half-hour for the Prime Minister. It was possible in those 30 minutes that he could have lost his position, but evidently he was just running late. And then there was the parade of dignitaries, a video by Shimon Peres who started a torch relay around Israel that ended at the mega-event, a helicopter circling Latrun (where the event was taking place) to drop off a soldier who'd had to return to his base and wasn't going to be at the event (all staged, but it made for a good show), dancers, singers, drummers, a performance by Kobi Aflalo, and, for a huge change of pace, no Gaia. It was actually one of the best megas I've been to with nearly 9,000 people.

Afterwards, around 11pm, you can imagine the scene with 150 tour buses leaving the site, along with all the cars for the VIPs and the rest of us who drove. It was at that hour that the highway crews decided to close two of the three lanes of the highway into Jerusalem to repave the road. If they could have waited just one more hour....

I think there have probably been a lot of bloggable moments over the last week, I just can't remember them....