May 8 - Arielle Hendel

We walked and walked and climbed more stairs than I can ever remember in one day.  We walked the ramparts from the Tower of David to the Jewish quarter and then folks had a choice of either Ir David (the City of  David) or the tunnel along the Wall.  I chose Ir David and well, let’s just say it was more than 300 steps down which means – you got it, more than 300 steps back up again.  Everyone was a trooper who trekked this archaeological dig!  The tunnels which go under then city were cool (in temperature and stature.)  But after having walked all over the city, the steps were quite a work out.  After all we ate, it couldn’t hurt.  And, it was cool to see a working archaeological dig.  They were also taping some kind of famous Israeli movie star there – too bad we did not know who she was; people were obviously excited by her presence.  And, there was a bar mitzvah party, too – crazy huge party.  All I could think about was how were those ‘fapitzed’ women going to make it up that hill again in heels?  More power to them.  I hobbled home with blisters but otherwise not much worse for wear.