Jerusalem

It’s time to head to our next destination, Jerusalem! We all are ready by seven, on the side of the road waiting for our driver and stoked to get into a new place. Our driver pulls up and we all realize there is not enough room in the van for all of our bags. Long story short we end up having to get a taxi just for our bags and than a van for us. We asked our driver about the “illegal” once we thought we had and he assured us he was illegal and that he would have gone to jail if he was caught. He said they are common but not too common and we are lucky we didn’t get in an accident because he would not have had insurance either. Ha it just made the story 10 times better. The trip to the border wasn’t too long and before we knew it we were unloading those dang bags again. By this time I had started to have a hatred towards these heavy bags. So there we are dropped off at the Israeli border but the thing is the taxi isn’t aloud to go through the check mark so we had to sit and wait for the boys to go back with the van, meet up with the taxi, puts the bags in the van and than come to us with the rest of the luggage. We finally get through this border crossing, it took the longest and cost the most. We even had to pay for our luggage on this bus that transported us about oh five minutes away from the check point, it was lame. But what was more lame was that after they loaded the entire bus they had us all get off. For no reason. Then get back on. Fun game they had us play. So I thought that the Isreali boarder was slow, nothing compared to the border once we got to our destination. Arabic people and lines do not mix, it’s more of a who can shove harder. So we shoved hard and than got our passports stamped and we were off. Jumped in a sweet van and headed off to the Old City of Jerusalem. Once we go to the old city we just sat outside and sat on top of the luggage until Emily and Robert found our hostel. Robert came out and told us that he feels as if we should stay at the cheaper place. One to give our team some room to travel with less stress and two because he feels as if it would a great place to be a light. We all prayed about it and totally felt like it was the place to be. So we trekked all of our gear through the old city (rough go) and to our hostel. Us girls stayed in a room with two other Korean girls, it was our first dorm set hostel. It was pretty fun. The hostel was crazy janky but it was all good. The way it was set up we had to walk through the old man’s living quarters to go in and out. So every morning he was sound asleep snoring as we set out for the day. That night was just full of cruising, buying candy on the street corner and getting good crepes from a man up the street, George. We than met Nick the dentist as we ate our cavity filling treat. The Lord just has blown my mind away with the way of intentional relationships we have created with any one we meet, from the crepe man to the shisha man on top of the camel. After we had our sweet treats we went into a place to have tea and listen to Viktor’s testimony. I’m a big fan of testimony talks and even bigger fan when there is tea involved.