Debby And Yonnatan Mazal Tov!

May 9th, 2013 was a special day, as my dear friend Debby got married to a wonderful guy Yonnatan.
The wedding was a true simcha*, I have never seen my husband dancing so much and also pulling me after him to the dancing floor :). Everything was beautiful starting from the Hupa at the sundown to the venue itself, the food and the music, which was unexpectedly eclectic, but fun at the same time. People were dancing to yemenite music, 70s,80s,90s, tango, salsa, rock, disco, french, spanish and even to russian songs(in my honor :) even i didn't have one on my wedding ). It was everything the wedding should be and I think it says a lot about the couple. We have enjoyed a lot and I can not describe how happy I am, that they found each other and make such a beautiful union. I wish you guys the best of the best and and hope to see you soon in NYC.
Unfortunately our camera and phone died right before the wedding so I have only few poor shots. But it is still better then nothing!

Galushky's flight to Tel-Aviv

We are in Tel-Aviv! I'm seriously excited and finally feel home! The weather is great , the people are cool, and the food is wonderful as usual. And oh my! finally good coffee! I feel blessed! We are just over the jet lag and are planning our time.
Our accommodation turned out to be perfect, we rented a beautiful, renovated two bedroom apt near the Rothschild-Shenkin corner, so everything is near and convenient. I think we got really lucky. By the way this apartment is available for rent through out the year...

KIng George St, Tel Aviv

To all who were wondering and scared for us travelling with the baby :), our flight was painless :). Galushka slept all the time, ocasionally waking up with a smile on her face and going back to sleep. She literaly didn't make a sound! In general she has been a very happy baby since we left NY. She smiles at people, waves hi and gives hi-fives and of course cannot be unnoticed due to her chubby pulkes and cheeks!

Bye Bye NYC, Hello TLV

Our lovely family is going to be on the airplane to Tel-Aviv in half an hour! We are so exited, especially Bubik. She laughs with her 2 teeth every time I'm telling her "Bubik nosaat le Tel-Aviv!"*.Finally we are going to have some new scenery to get inspired from. As much as we love New York City, this is a place where we work and lately there was too much of it! Kind of draining. But oto-to**, we are going to be recharging and partying our heads off in one of the most welcoming cities in the world, while savta** is babysitting :) Those who never been to Tel-Aviv and are not familiar with this city, will be able to learn all about it in my further posts. 

In a meanwhile lets talk a little more about NYC. There are two places I have recently visited that I would like to share. The best sushi in NYC, period, is Sushi of Gari.  402 E 78th St, NYC (212) 517-5340 (the original location). 

This place well deserves its Michelin star together with a wide recognition from many of Manhattanites. Chef's sushi 

omakase is probably the best choice you can make to get your overall impression.This will consist of 12 pieces of 

sushi out of this world.Though it wasn't our first time we still like to order omakase and to be surprised. No soy sause 

is used at this place, as one of the rules of the chef, and you will have no regrets.

Israeli Rock does exists!

Who knows me well enough, is aware that I have never really liked Israeli Rock. I can not exactly explain why, but I just didn't want to accept its existence. I would always rather listen to Eyal Golan and Shlomi Shabat or any other mizrachi performer. This is my inner frecha in me is speaking. I grew up in Bat-Yam. Deal with it. :) 

Well, things changed few days ago when we went to Yom Azmaut party to see Mashina and Dag Nahash. And what can I say, probably not enough... 

First of all, comes out I know all Mashina songs by heart! YooHoo! I didn't expect that from myself! When you listen to them life with another hundreds of Israelis around you, it is "ashkara"* gets to you. All of a sudden I felt at home, the way I didn't feel for a long time. Especially when people around me were trying to squeeze in closer to the stage and push in all directions "be si hahuzpa"*(of course I pushed back in order to protect my space "be si hahuzpa"). Then somebody screamed from behind "boena! eize simla yaffa esh la zoti! kusit haval al hazman!" pointing on a singer Yael Dekelbaum, who  was performing, while I was exactly thinking "what an ugly dress she is wearing". Then the lovely president of America-Israel came on stage to present Mashina and asked from Israelis not to be Israelis and to book their tickets for the next performance on May 30th, by Mush Ben Ari ASAP. Israeli flags were being waved in the crowd. It felt good. 

Mashina performed the best of their songs, and though Yuval Banai looked very weird when he was dancing( not sure if he imagined himself a bird, a dolphin, or just being in the 80s), he gave the audience his 100%. The vibe was amazing and reached its peak when him and Yael Dekelbaum (who pretty much annoyed me in the beginning) gave the performance of their lives with a blues song "kulam omrim li tizaer"*. Terrific performance! I was reluctantly looking at the watch, realizing that we need to leave soon to let our babysitter go, and I was just hoping that the time would freeze and we would stay more.

We didn't see almost anything from "HaDag Nahash" and we totally missed Matisiahu, but we still left happy and satisfied :)

I'm glad to admit - Israeli Rock exists! See some pictures and videos inside.

    Terminal 5 before the performance

Morimoto

One of the best spent evenings of last January was our 3rd anniversary dinner at Morimoto restaurant in meatpacking district.Since our beautiful Galia came out into this world, this type of nights became rare and therefore much more appreciated. The restaurant is run by the famous Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and Stephen Starr and designed by not less famous architect Tadao Ando. So eating deliciously in style was a given.

We have ordered an Omakase, "i'll leave it to you" from Japanese, with a tasting of Sake and of course some rose champagne, that for some reason wasn't rose at all.

The dishes were arriving one by one, and even that I didn't bring my D90 in order not to look touristy and bloggish, I couldn't help myself, but snap pictures with iPhone. Overall impression: highly recommended ,but don't order rolls, surprise yourself...

Enjoy the reportage below:

                      Rose which didn't look like Rose...