Tel Aviv

We arrived at Tulsa International airport around 11:00 in the morning, flew to Chicago, then Newark, N.J. where we caught our flight to Israel.  We arrived in Tel Aviv around 4:00 pm the following day.  After traveling 24 hours we were tired but that didn't diminish our excitement one bit.  We checked into the hotel, ate dinner, and immediately set out to explore the city and watch the sunset over the Mediterranean.
Tel Aviv is not much different from any other metropolitan city across the U.S.  The one difference that really stood out to me though, was the number of stray cats.  They were everywhere!  It almost looked like a cat convention, seriously!  I asked one man who was walking around setting out food for them why they had so many cats, and he told me the question I should ask would be why don't we have so many cats in the U.S.?  He asked me why we kill our cats?  Hmmmm...population control?  Stopping the spread of disease?  Keeping them from dying slow deaths of starvation?  Anyway, they don't have animal control centers so the cats just roam wild everywhere. 

Stray cats.  They were everywhere, in the park, by the beach, near the shops.  All of them were skinny, and shy.  None of them would come to us, but they weren't really afraid either.

The city looked much like any other large city complete with the golden arches of a McDonalds, although they don't have cheeseburgers.  It's not kosher to serve cheese with meat.