It's Funny How a Foreign City Can Feel Like Home

I honestly can't believe it is our last night in Jerusalem. Even though we've only been here five days, it feels a bit like home. We know a lot of the streets, we know how to get to our hotel, we've walked (I feel) everywhere and met some pretty amazing people.

Today we started out by travelling to the Holocuast Museum, the Yad Vashem, on the other side of the city. We took a taxi/bus, thank goodness. It was very impactful, and I know a lot of us were pretty shaken by the things we saw. It was a very touching experience. If you ever get to come to Israel/Jerusalem, put it on your list.

Then we grabbed some lunch at David's Pizza, a place right down the street from our hotel, and headed to the Wohl Museum, which is a building built around essentially a first-century mansion. It is an example of how the Donald Trumps/Bill Gates' would have lived back in Jesus' time. It was huge! And had all this beautiful mosiac work on the floors, and the walls were actually plastered and painted, which totally surprised me.

After that we grabbed a bus to the Mount of Olives (no hiking this time...our calf muscles thanked us) to see the headquarters of the Lutheran World Federation here and see the Augusta Victoria Hospital. It is one of the few hospitals available to the Palestininans in the entire West Bank. They specialize in cancer treatments, dialysis, geriatrics, and ears/nose/mouth. They are the only hospital that specializes in these things, so if a Palestinian had cancer, this is the only hospital to come to for treatment.

We then headed to a place across from the hospital and close to the Strickert's to play volleyball and meet some people that attend their church. We also had a delicious meal there.

So yeah! That's been our day...the last one in Jerusalem. I'm not exactly sure how internet access will be from here on out, but I will try my darndest to succeed in posting everyday. I just don't want to make any promises I can't keep. Cool?

Alright, have a great day/night. We start our morning tomorrow at 6:30, so we're all catching some shut eye early. :)
Carrie.