Sunday in Jerusalem

Sunday we woke up late....6:00 :) and left at 6:30. We had a tour for the City of David scheduled from 8-12 by one of Gabi Barkai's students. It was very fascinating. We got to see some different proposed sites of King David's palace, the Jebuzite fortress, David's grave and the cities boundaries. There are several digs and views in place about the City of David and where it was located on Mt. Zion so we had to walk all over the city to see the possible locations. Adam and two others also went back through Hezzakiah's water tunnel which goes through the City of David and down to a natural spring. You can read about the tunnel and Hezzakiah's broad wall in scripture. After the tour we went to our favorite place for lunch....guess? Damascus Gate Swarma Shop!!! Adam had spicy falafel and I had spicy swarma.

Then we went to the Rockefeller Museum....which holds lot of findings from the IAA- Israeli Antiquities Authority. We saw wooden panels from the Al aqsa Mosque-where Jesus overthrew the moneychangers in the temple. We saw lots and lots of pottery, coins, jewelry and parts of buildings from Tels such as Bet Shemesh, Megiddo and Tel Dan. In the courtyard of the Rockefeller is one of the boundary stones found for the city of Gezer.

After that we went to Shabban's to do some last minute shopping....one stop shopping at Shabban's... he gives us the best prices and always invites us in for a cool drink and a seat by the fan. We told Shabban bye and went to Ben Yehuda street for dinner. There we went to Melaka Swarma (Swarma King)...OH YUM!! They do swarma and falafel in pita wraps and they are huge. Adam and I got one and shared it. We put tazaki and spicy mango sauce on it and it was oohhhh soo good!!!

From there we went to H. Stern jewelry to return Old City Maps. If you returned your map they gave you a charm with the Jewish Star on one side and three stars (symbolizing Germany) on the other. H. Stern is a very notable jewelry store and they are all over the world. I am very happy to have that pendant as it will remind me to pray for the Jews and that they may know Christ as their Savior and believe that He is the Son of God.......it reminds me of that feeling I felt last year at the Wailing Wall and how I wanted to cry out for those there idolizing a man made structure.

After that we met the rest of our group..we spent the entire day with two other team leaders, Adam Dodd and Cameron Coyle who both go to SWBTS. We got back to Neve Shalom about 7:30 and we were very tired, however had enough energy to eat a large portion of our mocha and pistachio ice cream! We went to bed, ready for our last week of survey!

Here are pictures from Ein Gedi!!!