One can only eat just so much schwarma...

Today we went to Jerusalem.  Alert Mrs. Michaud!

So I'm just going to flood the page with pictures and as much as I can remember.  Tomorrow begins the work week.  
This is in old Jerusalem.  Heading towards Church of the Holy Sepulchre !

Old city Jerusalem with friends :)

 Ok the serious stuff.
The tomb of Jesus.

This heart was naturally in the stone 
just to the left of the entrance to the
tomb.  I thought that was pretty cool.
Magnified. 

 More in the church.

 Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org/
Holocaust memorial and study
center.  The children's 
memorial was beautiful.  I took
a video and will try to post it to
youtube.

                          The area around Jerusalem reminds me of California or northern Arizona.

In the old city.  The gold is the
Dome of the Rock that has been 
in the news so much lately.
http://www.domeoftherock.net/ 

 Honestly though, there was not a hint of the violence we see on the TV news.  Can you imagine if every violent crime that happens in
Baltimore or Miami was reported?  Things do
happen but it is not the usual way of life as they
lead us to believe on TV.





My little piece of paper
in the Western Wall!!

 

More views of the old city.  It is quite hilly there= great views. The Dead Sea was not far- so that lent a bit of water vapor to the air.

 This is part of the outer wall.
The old city is a walled city.
These are bullet holes- I believe 
from the war of 1967 he said.

 So many different groups of
people have been here over a looooong time. It is evident by the construction. Ya see, more
recent construction is usually on top of the old ( Just like the law of superposition in geology.)
Each group also had a unique style of construction.  In many places in Israel they are digging down, excavating to find the oldest buildings.  Do you think you live in an old house in Maine? Maybe 1850?  Imagine this area- thousands of years old.  The narrow streets are made of rock smoothed over the years by thousands of feet.

I have one more video to post.  It takes a long time to load but it shows the shops that line the narrow streets of the old city.