break the heat with water!

as many of you painfully remember, August can be pretty brutal in the holy land. we missed the hottest days of the summer by a week (the electricity usage in the country actually peaked into an all-time record) but it's still hot and humid.
the house is fantastically AC'd, but you can't really spend the entire time inside, can you?
i'm happy to report that the Sharonim are now the owners of a medium-size portable swimming pool, which they installed in the back yard under the avocado trees.



you can't see anyone in that picture, but there are quite some people in that pool!

we spent some time in it almost every day, and pretty much all day saturday. even Safta Sarah joined us!





Dori spent most of the day in his birthday suit:



on saturday evening, we met Assaf at the beach in TA for a couple of beers and a dip in salty water. Ella enjoyed the buoyancy, but you should have seen her face when she got a taste of the salty water! usually she drinks the pool (or lake) one gulp at a time. or just sticks her tong in the water. but poor Ella, this "lake" isn't her cup of tea!

in the pictures above, Ella is wearing the floaties for practice, to get used to them for when we go into deeper waters (we forgot to bring them to the beach of course).
today (monday) we (and the floaties) visited our friends' pool and had a lot of fun. we're thinking of getting ella some swimming lessons this winter so that she doesn't lose her lake feet!