Hi All!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just got home about an hour ago. Please don't ask me what time it is, much less what day it is, been travelling for almost 19 hours so the brain is just a bit fried. As Ginger posted, internet access was available at times but it was in Hebrew and I could not figure out how to switch languages. Not to mention the rather lengthy packed days left us all rather wiped out every night.
Soooooo, here is what I am going to do. I am going to post separately each day as it happened so you will still get the flavor of everything that happened. and believe me, there is a lot to tell, a real trip of a lifetime, where you literally reached out and touched history and religion.
For now, I may just rest a bit so hang in there:) To whet your appetite, the airplane ride there lasted 10 hours straight, not to mention a 2 hour ride from O'Hare to Newark and then on to Tel Aviv. We Christians (Catholics) were definitely in the minority on the plane. Lots of families, Orthodox men with the long curld, black hats and suits. Lots of teenage Jewish youths also, travelling to spend a week or two of their summer doing service in Israel. Definitely lots of kosher meals served on the plane. And then there's the Jewish men standing in the aisle at sunrise, bowing with their prayer shawls and saying their morning prayers. Israeli security is very very thorough, not scary just very efficient, no nonsense, and therefore, for anyone really worried, I felt extremely safe!!!
more to come.........
Soooooo, here is what I am going to do. I am going to post separately each day as it happened so you will still get the flavor of everything that happened. and believe me, there is a lot to tell, a real trip of a lifetime, where you literally reached out and touched history and religion.
For now, I may just rest a bit so hang in there:) To whet your appetite, the airplane ride there lasted 10 hours straight, not to mention a 2 hour ride from O'Hare to Newark and then on to Tel Aviv. We Christians (Catholics) were definitely in the minority on the plane. Lots of families, Orthodox men with the long curld, black hats and suits. Lots of teenage Jewish youths also, travelling to spend a week or two of their summer doing service in Israel. Definitely lots of kosher meals served on the plane. And then there's the Jewish men standing in the aisle at sunrise, bowing with their prayer shawls and saying their morning prayers. Israeli security is very very thorough, not scary just very efficient, no nonsense, and therefore, for anyone really worried, I felt extremely safe!!!
more to come.........
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