After getting back to our apartment–wilted, sweaty, and exhausted–we all collapsed for a siesta. I awoke earlier than most of the kids, but Hebs and Dad were up. Hebs and I decided to walk over to the Garden Tomb, which closes at 5pm. It was still hot as we walked, but the Garden Tomb is…
Month: June 2022
St Anne’s Church and the Pools of Bethesda
After finishing the tour of tunnels under the Western Wall, we trekked back to the Grandmas’ apartment. (Side note: we got a weird email from the AirBnB host, asking why we had so many visitors without telling them. Ooookay? We wrote back that the apartment was being rented by two older ladies and the visitors…
Western Wall Tunnels
Today we started our morning with a guided tour of the Western Wall Tunnels. These tunnels are the excavation of the land underneath the Muslim Quarter of Old Jerusalem, following the course of the 2000+ year old retaining wall for the Temple Mount–which is also the same wall as the Western Wall. The holiest place…
Holy Sites
This morning, I was awakened at 5:30 by some noise–it turned out to be EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of my children. Who apparently had been awake since 3am. Jetlag, man. It’s a killer. I went back to bed…but couldn’t sleep, thinking about everything we want to do. So by 6:30 I was up, and we started…
Day One in the Old City
Our plane arrived in Tel Aviv at 12:30a, June 1. To say we were tired would be an understatement. I felt practically no thrills at all at the signage in Hebrew, the Israel flags, the gorgeous mosaics on the wall. On maybe two hours of sleep for the last 30, I was barely keeping it…