Here are photos of our walking tour of a small part of Jerusalem:the Western Wall,The Old City and the Knesset. Also, some National Geographic style pics of gruesome open air meat market offerings. ew. Adam took those. I deleted an image of a tub of brains. I couldn’t take it.
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To see some random snaps go to Israel Assorted album.
Dogs of Israel
While Adam and I were in Israel we made some friends. We missed our dog a lot but these guys kept us company.
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Back from Israel
We’re back safe and sound.
Our trip went really well even though the dollar had fallen a few points or cents or whatever against the shekel since we’d been last year…but according to my bank statement I only spent about 800 hundred bucks(and a 3rd of that was in airports). So we were still able to live it up in the holy land. We went to Jerusalem where I saw the Old City and the Wailing Wall, Israelis call it the Western Wall and religious types walk away from it backward after they’ve prayed and left a letter.
In Jerusalem we also saw Jesus’s Tomb and Adam and our guide Ofer got a sudden fit of the giggles inside the tiny space. I’m not religious and was only interested in it in a historical way but it was still a little embarrassing. Everyone else was taking it so seriously and they were weirded out by it I guess.
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Like an Idiot
I decided to follow a tutorial on how pull my WordPress blog posts into my static home page just hours before I have to get on a plane. I messed up. But an hour later I had it all sorted out again except for the way a WP Query that pulls the latest post into a div at the top of the page was interacting with my other header. I didn’t have time to figure it out and now my fancy php navigation doesn’t show the current page item css. I love how any time you do one thing you end up having to do a bunch of other things to fix the thing you did.