Is it seriously only day four?

We have a little under an hour to spare before our dinner at 7pm, so I thought I'd jot a couple things down.

We started out our day observing the Wailing Wall. I thought it was interesting that men and women had to seperate when going to the wall. (If you don't know, the Wailing or Western Wall is the last standing part of the Second Temple, built by King Solomon. I think it is part of the outer wall surrounding the temple...don't quote me on that. If interested, I suggest Google.)

We then travelled Hezekiah's tunnel and saw the City of David. Hezekiah's Tunnel was built by none other than...Hezekiah. It was built to carry water in from outside the city to an inner pool, so they had water supply within their city during war times. It was underground, pretty narrow and short in some places, and the water got up to my thighs at one point. But it was pretty cool. We then saw the Church of All Nations, which was closed yesterday. This was built in the Garden of Gethsemane. There are olive trees standing outside the church that have been there for 2000 years...since Christ. They call it the Church of All Nations because many different nations donated money in order for it to be built.

After that, we walked by Absolom's Tomb. (It's not really Absolom's tomb...just named that. Although, many people will throw rocks at it because he betrayed his father.) Then we hiked up a lot of stairs to get lunch in the Jewish Quarter and stayed there for a while.

After that, we hoofed it to King David's tomb and what was traditionally thought of as the Upper Room, or where Jesus had the last supper. However, the architecture does not match that time period at all, and it's clearly a mosque. So, I'm guessing it's not the Upper Room...

We then went to a couple of churches, including the Church of Domition, which is thought to be where Mary (the mother of Jesus, not Magdalene) lived and died. There are actually three churches around that claim this, though. We also saw a church (can't remember the name now...) that was dedicated to Peter's betrayal of Jesus. Archaeologists think it was built upon Caiphas' house, and that Jesus would have been prisoned inside caves, which we were able to see.

Rather tired, we then walked through the Armenian Quarter to get back to the hotel to journal, shower, sleep, etc.

We're all doing great on the trip, even with the extreme walking, sunburns, and exhaustion. Hope you are all having a great day so far (it's seriously only 10:20am there?!).

Carrie.