Funny night at the Jerusalem Theater

After an insane week, my husband and myself were very much looking forward to seeing cellist Yo-Yo Ma in concert at the Jerusalem Theater. Luckily we scored tickets on a cancellation. My husband was excited we got so lucky and got decent seats. The night arrives and we get dressed up to go out. This was my first time doing anything really cultural in Israel so I was curious to see how it was going to go.

We get to our seats in the second section. Not bad at all I thought. My husband points out the "who's who" in our section, among them, Bank of Israel head Stanley Fischer and former Israeli ambassador to the UN. Look at us sitting with the big wigs I thought to myself=) A man I instantly recognized, left-wing politician Pepe Allalu comes up to us and says we are in his seats. Upon looking at the tickets we realize that we had the same seat and row number as the Allalu's however, our real seats were a bit further up. As we excuse ourselves and start climbing upwards, I thought to myself how high are our seats exactly?! We continue for a bit and an older man smiles at me and says refuah shlemah (that I should have a full recovery) I smiled and thanked him, biting back the impulse to say "my walk is a permanent condition buddy but thanks"=) Only in Israel will someone say something like that to me. I think it's very sweet. It's happened a few times already. It always makes me laugh though.

Now back to the concert. We finally reach our seats...in the last row of the theater=) My husband and myself look at each other and all we can do is laugh. Not only are we in the last row of the theater but everyone in the last two rows had to sit forward in their seats to properly see what was going on down below, as my husband was telling our friend on the phone, "it's like we're all leaning forward on the toilet"!! Gotta love my husband sometimes=) Not only did we have to lean forward for most of the 3 hour concert, but our backs were killing us because of the way we were sitting. "200 shekel each ($50) and look how we're sitting," said my husband. I couldn't stop laughing. Only us would this happen to.

Even though we were up in the nosebleeds-which actually made me really miss my hockey game days up in the nosebleeds (where the real fans sit)!- the concert was beautiful and well worth it. Yo-Yo Ma is a phenomenal cellist. At one point the Jerusalem Orchestra played a beautiful rendition of Hatikvah for which everyone stood. Our night at the Jerusalem Theater is definitely one I will remember for quite awhile.