Today we went on a ‘tee-ouwel’ (excursion in Hebrew) to the old Aqueducts that brought water from Mt. Hebron to the temple. The aqueduct was cut right through the rock and was at a very small decline until it reached the temple. The engineering is pretty amazing and the aqueducts were used for a long time, until around 1900 when the Turks tried to improve it, but really ended up destroying it. So now, there is no water flowing, just a tunnel cut through the rock that is just big enough to walk through.
There is so much here in Jerusalem that it is almost daunting to try and conquer it all in only a month. I really need to get a book that tells me all of the places that I should visit because right now it seems impossible to check out all that I would like to see.
Last weekend I went to Tel-Aviv. Much different from Jerusalem, but it is still Israel. I ended up sleeping on the beach for one of the nights, because that is what people do here in Israel when they don’t want to pay for a hostel. The cool thing is that it worked fine and it was one of the best nights I have had in Israel. My guess is that is because the night before I didn’t sleep.
Well, how could one sleep with Liela Lavon going on? That means white night and all of the shops stay open all night and there are free concerts up and down the beach. Pretty neat stuff. Needless to say, I had a good experience with that and met some cool Israelies. The girls we met didn’t speak much English, so it was just the moment for my Hebrew to shine. Shine is probably not the right word, but I had about the equivalent to a 4th grade conversation.
Sorry about the lack of pictures, but I am working on it. I have taken about 10 pictures so far of the trip and I need to find a computer that I can load them onto. What I really need is a woman who likes taking pictures. I do not take pictures, not that I am opposed to it, but it just never crosses my mind to get out there and do it. So I need someone else to do it for me.
