Shabbos in Jerusalem... WOW! within 10 minutes of the shabbos bell ringing the whole city stops and the worst part was I couldn't take to many pictures. But streets (King George) that have been full of cars and people are are empty in minuets I have no idea where all these cars went so fast.
Friday night we had a slumber party, so Sam went back to her room and got some cloths and then she had a shabbos treat and took a bath in our tub. It rained and hailed on Friday so our original plans to go to a shul that Sam really likes Shira Hadasha were kaboshed it was about a 20 minuet walk from base and we were not going to do that to Bubbie in the rain. So we had shabbos dinner (ordered and paid for in advance) in the hotel great for people watching ... the food was nothing to write home about so I won't.
Saturday was truly our day of rest. We did not wake up until 12:30 in the afternoon and then we stayed in bed and watched Gray's Anatomy (Morgan I'll get you for that) until sunset.
Then we took showers, got dressed and went out, and just as quickly as Jerusalem closed down it opened up again. We had dinner at Macaroni a great little pasta place (dairy) on King George Street and then we went to Ben Yehuda. Now we were on Ben Yehuda when the shabbos bell rang and in minuets everything was closed, it was raining and we couldn't even get a taxi to take us to the hotel so we walked, yeah I know no other choice. But just as fast as they closed down the whole street came back to life as soon as havdallah was done and then it is a party. There are groups singing in the street and people are walking around and shopping and when you look a the signs on the shops you see that on Saturday they are open from 1 hour after sundown to 11:00 at night.
and we had a such a great time.... Sam was haggling with a street vendor for some scarfs and she worked her price down from 125 nis a scarf to 3 for 250 nis we are so proud of her. Then we found a gallery that had some pieces from Frank Meisler. Now for those of you that can't put the name with the art he is the artist that made the large Silver and Gold Camel piece on the speaker in front of the french doors in the living room. Anyway we have been seeing a lot of Meisler look alike work but not his real stuff so it was very nice to see that he was still working. While we were in the gallery I found another artist Mary Goldmintz she makes these beautiful cut metal wall pieces. The one that I really fell in love with is called The Sea Dance it is really nice to watch. But it is also out of my price range.
Some of these pictures just don't want to load at this time.... so we will have to wait until I can put them up.
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