Le Vingtième Jour, Samedi. (The twentieth day, Sunday 6/5)

 The first stop of our Sunday was at Hezekiah's Tunnel, but we did the Canaanite tunnel, which is the dry version of what I'd already done. Basically, it was not as good as what I already did, so I didn't take any pictures.

After that we walked up to the Temple Mount area again. So we've already been there before, but we didn't go to the specific place that we went this time. Because THIS time we went right to where the front gate was, which is the gate that Jesus would have used. And the area directly in front of the arches has been excavated down to the original stone from the second temple. Yea, that means that Jesus stood on this stone. Pretty freaking exciting. Being in this land means that there are all sorts of places that Jesus was near, could have been, is throught to have been, but this is the ONE place that we know Jesus was.

Jesus rock!

Standing on the Jesus rock!

This is just me posing on the steps leading up.

Then we went to lunch, where I went to an Italian restaurant called Mozzarella in the heart of the Jewish quarter of the Old City (??) and had penne with olive oil and garlic. Super tasty! Then I had some delish chocolate gelato. Yum!

Our last stop was a place that had a model of the city and a video about it. The stop ended with an explanation of the ancient alphabet and then an attempt at writing our names...I wasn't very good. When we left that place we walked up on the rooftop of the Old City. It was wild! See, we didn't climb up there, but we simply took a few stairs. It doesn't seem like you're going very far up, but you end up on the roof system. There was a sweet view across the rooftops and also down through a window type thing looking into an alley of the city!