DAY 8

Sorry that's it has been awhile since I wrote anything about Israel. Life has been busy and doesn't look like it's going to slow down any time soon so I thought that I'd make time today to write some more...and I got a phone call from my sister.

We spent the eighth day in the Old City. In the morning we were divided into groups and went to the homes of elderly and disabled people and cleaned for them. I got to see a lot of the Old City that day that I hadn't seen yet because the houses we went to were pretty far from where we started out. The picture below is the team that I was with.
We all met back and went for lunch. I was with Lisa and some others and we went to the Jewish Quarter to eat. After lunch we had some time to practice our skits, dances, songs and what not as we were putting on a children's event that afternoon in the Arab Quarter. Our theme was the Wise man and the Foolish man. We did the skit of the Three Little Pigs but we had to change it to the The Little Monkeys with a lion because pigs are not kosher (just ask Craig) and they don't have wolves there. After we were finished we had a kind of carnival for the kids. There was face painting, balloon animals, juggling, drum playing and lots of candy. They all had a wonderful time as did we.

A.J. the Lion was Dustin, one of the Canadian guys. He did a good job, so good the lion scared a lot of the kids.

Lisa doing some face and arm painting. All the kids wanted to have their names written on them as well as have their face decorated.

Later that night we had some free time to go about the city and explore. A group of us went to Ben Yehuda Street were Lisa and I decided to go for "coffee" at Cafe Hillel. Everyone else carried on and we met up with them later at the hotel.