Israeli Shabbat in Efrat

Now that we've been here a year and are about to depart, we figured it was about time we spent a Shabbat with actual Israelis. The girls from Rina's program at Matan, along with their husbands/fiances/children, all got together in Efrat to spend the weekend together. The parents of one of Rina's classmates own a beautiful house there, and had enough children to warrant having enough bedrooms that their home could be turned into a hostel. The weekend was lots of fun, even though for some reason we went to a shul populated by North Americans, and we even got to eat our first authentic pashtida! It turns out that it is just a quiche. But an Israeli quiche!