FRIDAY

Yesterday I woke up at 10ish, but didnt get out of bed until much later. Rach and I went to the old city to the Davidson Center. But before we did that, we walked through mamila mall, slowly. While walking we saw a boy on the shoulders of a guy carrying a huge gun on his back. It was such a good picture, but by the time we got our cameras out, people were in the way. We then got a bagel and ate that right by the manorah with the great view. There were a lot of tours going on. I felt so cool that i am not a tourist!! finally! So, eventually we made it to where we wanted to go. Because we were students, it only cost us 16 sheks. We saw tourists go in (from america) so we sat down and listened to what the tour guide said. It was interesting. Ive been there before, but one thing i learned was that the Temple was constantly being fixed up. I learned some other things too...Rach and i didnt have time to follow with them because the buses stopped at 3:30 because of shabbat, so we walked around on our own.

We walked all around and saw some great views. We went to the entrance of the Temple...but before that a family asked if we spoke english and then asked us if we knew where the steps to the Temple were. This was before we saw the steps so i told them where i thought it was, but told them to go ask someone else. They still decided to listen to me, and i was right! yay! rach and i were cracking up that they thought we seemed israeli! We looked like we were sem girls because we wore skirts. After wandering around and getting kicked out of the building where the movie is played, we went to the kotel "just to say hi" (as rach says). We then got on a bus and i saw that the bus driver from another bus was wearing tefillan!!!!! Once again, i didnt get my camera out quick enough. We also saw kids on a donkey walking on the sidewalk. When we got home after buying wine for shabbat (we are going to her family friends house tomorrow--she hasnt met them before) we ate a little and then i watched the rest of new moon. I then took a nice nap and just chilled. Some of us played apples to apples and then boaz and a couple of his friends came over, so we all just hung out.