A temporary distraction

I feel like my recent posts have not been very interesting or substantial, and I'm having trouble writing about things I hope will be entertaining or even worth reading. I have so much to write about and a million thoughts that I'm trying to keep track of, but I can't seem to get them into a coherent set of ideas yet.

So in the mean time, here are some more photos from yesterday's sauntering through the old city and today's Israeli museum exploration:

(ps. I can only seem to update 5 photos at a time.)

Here's that huge menorah I was talking about in my earlier post during the day time, and you can't see it in this picture's angle, but the kid in the blue hat has a gun in his lap.



















The next picture is taken in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the stone where supposedly Jesus' body was washed before his burial. The man bending over it was praying by it while rubbing his hands on it.














Here I am on the roof of the shouk/souk in the old city. You can see the Dome of the Rock and the Mount of Olives in the background. And check out all those satellite dishes! It's just like in Morocco where it's so bizarre to see ancient buildings adorned with the modern trinkets of satellite television.














We spent saturday afternoon at the only open museum in Jerusalem-the Israel Museum, and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Shrine of the Book. The scrolls were in an underground cave sort of structure, and the white fountain behind us is the roof of the construction. The atmosphere of the museum exhibit is supposed to mimic the inside of the pots where the scrolls were found.














Have you ever seen those LOVE sculptures? This one is by the same artist with love in Hebrew. The placement of the sculpture against the blue sky and Jerusalem in the background reflect a spiritual, celestial love as well as the more earthly love. It's also cool because read from right down to left down, it says, "Ab" and "HaHa", which are also both names for God.