Erik Loses Eyeglasses In Israel

Before losing the glasses -- and after.

-- JERUSALEM

They had seen four continents, millions of women, pyramids, and mummies -- and now they are looking at the bottom of a pond in northern Israel.  Erik's eyeglasses have been lost.

"I completely forgot that I was even wearing glasses," Erik told a hastily convened press conference outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.  "I was climbing down this really, really high cliff," (ENN reports suggest that the cliff was approximately 10 feet high and had a ladder to make it easier to climb) "when I just decided to jump into the pool of water at the bottom.  And my glasses just fell off and sunk."

Erik's longtime friend, the incomparable Elizabeth, was leading Erik and friends David and Rami on a hike through the Israeli wilderness.  The hike was "challenging" at parts, requiring the group to swim in order to continue.  The pond which now holds Erik's glasses was at least "like, 3 feet deep," making it impossible to retrieve Erik's beloved spectacles.

"We tried to warn him," Elizabeth said, "but he just wouldn't listen."

After returning to Jerusalem, Erik found his spare pair of glasses, but insisted that they weren't as "sexy" as the originals, and therefore unacceptable.  Erik tried to find sexier replacements in Jerusalem, but found most of the stores "not trendy enough."

Elizabeth also helped Erik reunite with his friend Darwish, and she took him all around Jerusalem, stopping at the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Ariel Sharon's house, and the movie house to watch Fahrenheit 9/11.  Photos of the adventures are in the eriklove.com Photo Album.

Stay with ENN as we watch Erik try to regain his sex appeal by getting a new pair of glasses.