Jesus wuz here.

First of all, thanks for praying. We arrived safe and sound. And no luggage was lost!

Our first night together was typical: awkward. But now, after 24 hours of traveling and a day and half in the Holy Land we are practically family. So great. So so great. I would launch into great details about everyone here, but I've only got this computer for a couple of minutes, and need to share what's important enough for you to read.

I am tempted to give you a play-by-play of what we've eaten since I'm pretty much in hummus heaven, but the general consensus on blogs about food is either that they are 1) julie (of Julie and Julia) 2) boring 3) mean, since the food that's being written about is probably going to make you hungry...so, I'll skip that.

Here's the good stuff for now:

Less than 20 hours in Israel and I was almost arrested.
Liz and I decided to go for a run (try not to laugh too hard, ok?) and as we're crossing the street to turn toward the Sea (as in the mediteranean...nbd) Running where Jesus probably walked) a police officer waves over at us and another lady runnner coming from a different direction (I mean, she was like hard core. Full Nike ensemble etc.) and starts scolding in Hebrew.
To which I respond, "Lo Ivrit...?" I seriously couldn't even remember the only full sentence of Hebrew I had come to Israel with. When he found out we were tourists, after we continued to stare blankly at him, and then started yelling at the other woman runner.
What we gathered from the one sentence of Anglit (English), "Israelis, we never cross at the light!", we believed that we had possibly (ok, probably) crossed the street when the little man was red and not green (so handy that those color codes are mostly universal) and were being scolded...which really could have been a ticket or some jail time because the Nike Lady Runner was being escorted to the cop car and Liz and I took the opportunity to run for it.
Literally.

So, two points for running. And seven points for not getting arrested.

I like it here.
More info to come. E-mail me!

Lehitraot,
Rachel