New friends, good food, sun and dancing...what more could you ask for in a weekend?

The past weekend was pretty fantastic. The weather was nice. We ate at several delicious restaurants. We (finally) went for a much needed run. And we discovered a few new and fun clubs in Tel Aviv.

Wednesday night we went to a bar called the Apartment. It was a nice place and Tam randomly got her hair trimmed, because a hari salon was celebrating its birthday there. Despite being cut to dance music in a dark bar, her hair still looks good!

Thursday night we went to a club called Rothschild 12. When we got there we thought we had the wrong address because it looked like an abandoned building. Turns out the bar was around back...It was a pretty small and trendy place, but it played some pretty fun music. From there we decided to head around the block and see if we could find another bar to try out. We ended up in a Georgian (like the people...) bar - but I have no idea whats its called. We thought it was a gay bar at first, but it turns out older Geirgian men just really like to dance on speakers. Who knew.

Friday was lovely. We gought up at a decent hour and walked down the beach to a neighborhood called neve tzedek where we went to a restaurant called Dallal for brunch. I LOVE ISraeli breakfasts. This place served up something similiar to what I described from Max Brenners (minus the chocolate) - with lots (tons) of fresh bread, cheese spreads, tuna, salad and eggs. So good. From there the girls I was with decided to do some shopping while I met some others at the beach. It wasnt a scorcher this weekend, but the beach was still great.

Once it cooled off we decided to walk down the beach towards Jaffa. On the way we stopped at a place called the Dolphinarium where they had this big drum circle. Pretty sweet.

Saturday we went for a run down the beach front path to Jaffa and back. Since it was shabbat, the path was full of people out walking and enjoying the sunshine. Once we were done, we decided to counteract the calories we had just burned by trying out a gelato shop called Tita. They have a ton of crazy flavors with cute names like Hanzel and Gretel and Snow White etc. Also delicious.

After spending some time relaxing at the beach - and trying not to adopt the cutest puppy that a guy wanted to give to us for free - we got cleaned up and walked back down towards Jaffa to a restaurant called Manta Ray. They have these crazy deliciously crazy mezzes that I would definitely go back for. The restaurant itself is located right on the water and lit up by candle light as the sun went down. Very nice.

We ended the weekend with a bang by heading up to the port area to a club called Chin Chin. This is definitely my favorite dance bar so far. Good fun people and great dance music made for a fantastic time.

All in all - great weekend.