We have arrived in Jerusalem! The flight was long, but not as long as the one to China, and everyone around us had kosher food, too! The funniest part was after dinner when all the men got up to daven ma'ariv (say the evening prayers), but the flight attendants hadn't finished with the coffee service, so the captain had to make an announcement for the men to sit back down and wait for another forty minutes. And it sounded like he had made the same announcement many times.
We are in a cute little apartment right off of Ben Yehuda Street, a pedestrian shopping street that is right in the heart of the new city. After we settled in and took a little nap, we went down and I was immediately hit with yiddishkeit overload. Judaica in all the stores! Kosher restaurants everywhere! We bought some snacks at the local supermarket and barely bothered to check ingredients. We went to a little local place and had burgers and chicken wings for dinner. Now, that may not sound like much, but believe me, the boys were very excited. (Okay, Jon and I were, too.)
Tonight we're going to try to sleep on local time so we can start in on full tourist mode tomorrow. We're going to take a bus tour of the city on our own, just to get our bearings. Jon lectures on Wednesday and then our guided tour starts on Thursday. The photos will start coming tomorrow for sure, so stay tuned!
Laila tov! Good night!
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