Hello All. We are now blogging from Jerusalem! Yay! Today we arrived after a long flight. The food on the plane was delicious. They served us Chinese chicken with rice for dinner and bagels with eggs for breakfast. I slept for about an hour on the whole flight. After landing we met our tour guide Yoav! That's Y-O-A-V. And we met Pini! Who is our personal medic and security. His family is from Jerusalem, but Yoav is from northern Israel. Yoav claims he is a great basketball player but we are yet to confirm this. We then headed from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem we had a little bit of time to explore the old city and see Hanukah lights. There are cats everywhere. They are like the squirrels of Jerusalem. Yoav took us through these alleys that seemed very secret but in fact it was the center of the old city. There were menorahs in every window which is a very cool sight to see. It was absolutely amazing but we were all exhausted from the flight and ready to go to sleep. We headed to meet the bus where we saw our first Israeli soldiers. They looked like they were about 18 carrying M16's but wearing sweatpants and tennis shoes. They weren't really in a specific uniform. The 3 soldiers had their hands full with a very drunk arab man. Finally we headed back to the hotel and were able to go to sleep.
The words of the day were Bavakasha - please
Toda - Thank you
Slicha - Excuse me
Mike Swartz and Sarah Dagon
"Toda" for all of the terrific blogs! Enjoyed all of them. Can't wait to hear more. Wishing everyone a safe trip home.
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