Hello!
Today was our first day in Jeruseleum. Last night Krista and I both went to bed tired however at about 2AM we both woke up. Funny as it was....I couldn't go back to sleep until 7AM which would have been about 9PM in LA. Can you tell that I am still on LA time. Tonight, I am hoping it is different. But, this morning we met up with Derek and Ryan and had breakfast in the hotel in Tel Aviv. They came in at 2AM last night. After breakfast we packed up our stuff and took a bus to Jeruseleum. By the time we took the bus and taxi to our place it was about 3PM. We are staying in St Andrews Church and Guest house. It is a hospice and it over looks the old city! It is very nice.
After taking everything inside we headed out for a journey of the town. We entered the town through Jaffa Gate and made our first stop at the "Schook". This is an underground market where they sell a variety of things. IT was there that we met two young men asked to sell us some items. After getting to know them a little, we invited them to give us a tour of the city. It was nice have some people to show us Jeruseleum from their point of view as well as it helped us find things much faster. They took us to the Wailing Wall, the Holy Seplica, and we were able to walk on Solomon's Wall that was build to hold the Arc of the Covenant. We walked on what was remaining.