Happy Birthday Jim!! Today we decided to attend a Lutheran Church service in the Old City. We thought we had found it with about 10 minutes to spare, but we were surprised when all the bulletins were in Arabic and there were only two people in the church. We realized that the Lutheran service was going to be held in the chapel which was two doors down from the main church. It was a nice small stone chapel with about 30 people there. The service was nice, h...

After the jam packed day yesterday, we slept in a bit today. The weather forecast was once again hot (it was 80 by 10 AM!) but it was overcast and felt like rain. We finally got going and we were off to the Israel Museum - about a 35 minute walk from our hotel. Did we mention Jerusalem isn't flat? Well it sure wasn't flat on the way to the museums today either! The city was so quiet today. It was very different than the first two days. Very few businesse...

What a full day we had today! We started with a breakfast at our hotel. When we got downstairs our guide, Madeleine was already waiting for us! We had a quick bite and chatted while we were eating. She had found our blog, which is how she knew what we looked like when we came downstairs. So we talked a little about travel and our plan for the day. The day was already getting hot, in the low 70's with the high supposed to get to about 80. We would be walkin...

Today's travels to Jerusalem required a very early start. We woke up in Geneva around 4 AM so we could leave the apartment and make the 4:40 train to the airport to make our 7 AM flight to Tel Aviv. This was all a very easy process and nothing really of note except that people loved to stand up and walk around and talk on the plane. There were a good dozen people standing at any given time. But, the four hour flight was simple enough and we landed in Tel Avi...