There’s a New Kid in Town

Well, we are starting to settle in as regular Israelites. Well, not exactly, we could still be picked out of a line-up.

These are some Police on horses we saw. I’m not sure what king of horses they were but the one looked like some kind of draft horse and the other looked like a Morgan. They were huge and beautiful. Police are out everywhere these last couple of days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police officers let us take their picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s entourage coming through as we walked home.

 

 

We have seen the Prime Minister entourage come through several times the last couple of days. This is because, not only do we live across the street from the President, but we live around the corner from the PM. So every time he has a hankering for a Big Mac, we get to see him leave along with several other cars with blue lights on top. Tonight on our way home, as we finished the climb at Yemen Moshe, we came to the intersection of Bloomfield and Jabotinsky and noticed the intersection was completely shut down—not a car in sight. Because we knew PM Netanyahu was in town, we assumed he was about to pass through. Sure enough we could hear the sirens and the loud speaker. They were speaking Hebrew so I can’t tell you what they were saying. Regardless, it was cool. We were pulling a suitcase full of clean clothes which we had just washed at Eric’s school. I was paranoid that someone would be curious about the big bag and why we decided to sit down just as the PM was coming through. Fortunately, no one seemed to care and we tried to get pictures but as you can see they really aren’t that good.

Speaking of laundry, we weren’t sure our plan to haul our laundry to Eric’s school once a week was such a good idea after making the trip to school. However, once we were home with clean clothes, the girls and I decided it wasn’t that bad.

Next to the school is the Jerusalem Protestant Cemetery. To get to it, you have to go through the school property. Meaning, someone has to unlock the gate to the school and let everyone in when there is a funeral. As we were arriving with our laundry, a funeral was also going on. Whoever was laid to rest today, had 2 Bishops present, wow! They walked right by us as we were hanging our laundry out to dry. Outside the laundry room, the school has a beautiful garden full of pomegranate, lemon and cumquat trees, lantana, cactus, herbs, etc. Today, we did school in the garden while waiting on the clothes. It was so cool to be reviewing the Fertile Crescent and ancient History on the top of Mt. Zion.

Just another day in Jerusalem.

(I’ve put some pictures below that I haven’t written about but wanted to share.)

 Shalom!

Beautiful Palm trees along Jabotinsky in the Talbieh—to fully understand their size, compare to cars on street to the right. 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Apartment building along same route. Check out the foliage. Usually, these are geraniums flowing down of these terraces. Also, we were asked about the trees. Jerusalem is full of huge towering trees but it is also crowded with very tall buildings sometimes overshadowing these beautiful trees.

 

Another Apartment building along Jabotinsky.

 

 

 

 

 

UPS in Jerusalem hasn’t taken off like in the states—can you imagine?

 

 

 

 

 

A home on Yemen Moshe. The back of this home has a beautiful view of Mt. Zion and the Old City Walls as well as JUC. I haven’t seen many homes that you can access w/o at least one flight of stairs. 

 

 

 

Candy shop at the suk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Jewish brother getting some shopping done before Shabbot. Notice the curls and hot. Most likely there is a Kipa under his hat.
 

 

 

 

The crowd while at the suk. You can see Lida and Tally in the foreground.

 

 

 

 

 

Halva shop. This is a sweet dessert in this part of the world. Karen tells me it is made of sesame paste and of course, sugar.