Just a Good Day in the life of Jerusalem.

  We went to this cool place today.  We had to pay to get in but there's like 2 millions dollars worth of bible stuff in this building.  It's part of this Jewish religion that is waiting to build the 3rd temple on the temple mount.  They went through the bible and built all the things that are described in the bible for the ancient temple.  All of it is in these locked glass walls just waiting to be put in the new temple that they pray can be built everyday.  They have pure gold things, in the exact measurements and all the stones with the 12 tribes on them..and everything.  it was crazy cool to listen to their beliefs and see the actual things...ready to be used someday.

 

 

We walked around the city afterwards.  Got locked accidentally into a church where there was a private mass..and took cool pictures.         Here's Walter and I in front of a cool door.

Bread is really sacred here.  With significance to Christ being the bread of life, and for other significance reasons... you will never see bread once on the ground.  It doesn't matter how clean or poor, rich or dirty the community is: there will never be bread on the ground.  It always is put up on walls or stuffed up in a window or put somewhere where it's not on the ground.

Here we are wandering through the Armenian quarters..just enjoying the pretty streets.  These people feel like family sometimes.

A T-shirt in the T-shirt store that we cracked a smile over..  What a country.

Us enjoying smoothies at our favorite cafe in new Jerusalem:Sambooki.

   

We decided to be adventurous and watch a movie in a foreign country.  Getting out there, I know...

We waited and took a taxi..watched a little boy be dragged down the street and got a good laugh...and then headed to the movie theatre in a crazy taxi.

We finally got to the theatre...and picked our movie.  We felt Indiana Jones would be appropriate since we would be going to Petra next week...and it just fits the setting we're in over here on the other side of the world.

The power went out at one point in the theatre for about 10 minutes and it was absolutely pitch black... It also had an intermission in the middle of the movie which made us all laugh very hard.  It was definitely a really good day.

 

YAD VASHEM

The next day we also went the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.  It was intense the feelings we had there.  Instead of focusing on numbers and things, it focused on these people as individuals.  People with hopes and dreams.  Just trying to make something of themselves, just like the rest of us.  This really was an influential thing to experience.  We all were more solemn the rest of the day and I think it effected all of us.  I've never been to a more intense, detailed museum.