seth is here...!!! :)

seth arrived in israel on october 5th...

i was sooooo happy to see him!  :)  :)

seth and i went to tel aviv the day he got here

and enjoyed a walk on the beach...

tel aviv beach...

seth and i went to jerusalem and enjoyed

the sights and sounds of the famous

ben yehuda pedestrian street...

here an artist pencil sketches a girl's face...

street musicians...

these street musicians have a very interesting

combination of a saxaphone and 

drums made out of pvc plumbing pipe!!  lol!!

seth took a picture of me standing in front of the gate

to the president's house....

after we took the picture, the guards by the gate

came over and asked to see what we had taken pictures of...

when they saw the picture, they were ok with it!  :)

the weekend seth and i spent in jerusalem there was

two jewish holidays back to back -

shavuot  - the feast of weeks/booths

and simhat torah - the celebration of the torah.

orthodox men headed home for shabbat meal

with their families on friday night...

an orthodox father and sons...

we spent time with daniel kirchhevel and his family...

here we were singing together...

the boys went to play basketball...

first they watched...

then they played...

friday night we walked jerusalem's old city

with donnovan and elena and their friend, daniel

the plaza around the western wall was very full

as it was friday night, the beginning of shabbat,

as well as being a holiday....

celebrating the torah....

men dance and sing holding torah scrolls

i got a few pictures before i was noticed by

people standing nearby who asked me to stop.

taking pictures is breaking the sabbath

for the ultra orthodox, so it is prohibited

near the wall during shabbat.

then we walked on top of the old city walls

and enjoyed a night time view of the whole city...

seth climbed a fence he found
(lol...leave it to seth to be entertaining... :)

playing some music for friends...

on shabbat, seth and i attended church in jerusalem

and then enjoyed a picnic in the park after the service.