Todd and Lisa's RTW trip

Our time in Jerusalem was wonderful. We did a lot of walking (Todd still feels like Moses and is slowly starting to resemble him) and A LOT of eating. The food in Israel is fantastic, especially at the Village Green, Kobi’s restaurant. The veggies and fruit are sooo good, not to mention the Falafel and Shawarma. Natalie and Oded’s wedding was so much fun. It was a real party. We felt like we were in an Israeli MTV dance club. Lights, and shots and cameras galore….you don’t even want to get us started on the food!!! We were mental noting for our wedding…. in 200????

After Jerusalem we headed south to the Dead Sea. We floated around for a while and got massages. This trip is really getting tough. We continued on to Eilat, which is at the very south of Israel (check the map). It borders Eygpt and Jordan. The Red Sea is AMAZING. The water is perfectly clear and blue. The fish are bright and everywhere. The Pacific Ocean has got nothing on the place!! We also went scuba diving for the first time. We are kicking ourselves for not ever doing it in Hawaii. Our guide said we were naturals, as he took our sheckels!

Today, we ventured out of Israel and into Jordan. Crossing the border was a cinch…and then onto the Arab hussle game. We got a taxi and drove up through Jordan to an area called Petra. Petra is an old city (we’re talking OOOLLLDDD) that was actually built by carving the building out of the stone mountains and canyons, in the middle of the desert. It is where Indiana Jones and the last crusades was filmed. Its hard to explain how amazing it was. When we get to a place where we can upload pictures, we will. Being in Jordan was a real cultural exp. for both of us. We rode camels for part of our hike through Petra.

On our way back we took an amazing road, that lead us through beautiful desert valleys. The mountains are a spectacular red. When we arrived back at the border we paid our driver and in the typical hussle/Arab way, he said we owed more. Todd was listening to why… and Lisa was like HELL NO!! Long story short, Lisa procedes to get into it with the driver, his pimp, and the Jordanian border patrol (who had BIG guns, and we ain’t talking muscles). We then proceded through customs WITHOUT paying more. You can take the girl out of NY, but you can’t take the NY out of the girl!!

More to come later….. we’ll post some pictures to this soon.
xoxo

After staying up all night with Arwen in London, taking the bus with all the drunks at 4 am to the airport, and getting the last row in the full airplane, we landed tired in Tel Aviv where we were graciously picked up by Judy. She whisked us away to northern Israel where Eve’s family was vacationing. We have spent the last few days hanging at the beach on the Mediterranean. It is HOT here. Todd says he feels like Moses. Todd also went into his first synagogue, and then taught Lisa how to spell it. Below is a picture from a port city called Caesarea. It is the ruins of a Roman village from 37 BC. It was amazing how easy it was to visualize the city. There were pillars from palaces, marble where bathtubs were and even still intricate mosaic’s on the floors. Lisa was riding horses in the hipodrome, While gladiator Todd was running wild(don’t ask). We arrived tonight in Jerusalem. The last picture is a panoramic of the Old City in Jerusalem. Shalom

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