A weekend in Jerusalem

After church on Saturday we went to the private section of the Garden of Gethsemene.  This part deserves to be called a garden and not just "the three trees of Gethsemene."  How lucky that my afternoon decision was to decide whether to go read at the Garden Tomb or the Garden of Gethsemene.  Honestly?

Sunday we went to the YMCA to play the bells in the bell tower.  To clarify... this means that I actually played the bells.  To be exact, I played the Carol of the Bells for all of West Jerusalem to hear! One of the service couples at the center goes and plays the bells every Sunday (he is a masterful organist, and it must carry on to bells also?), and he lets us come.  I loved it!  Nathan played the Hogwarts theme music. So cool.  How fun would it be to all of a sudden hear the bells playing this?

That night we went to dinner at Roza in West Jerusalem for Shelleybelly's birthday(more Shelleyisms are coming) and Adri's parents came!  Her dad surprised us all and paid for us, he is an angel! It was so fun hanging out with her parents! It gave us a new light on Adri, and made me love her even more!

Then we went to Ben Yehuda Street and got gelato.  When we were leaving we saw this lady sitting at a table by herself, with a single rose on the table. We were trying to think of what her story could be, so finally I went and started talking to her.  It turns out the rose was just given to her by a plant shop owner when she bought a plant.  But, the rose wasn't the story.  No, it's the fact that her name is Michelle and she is Prince's lover.  Yes, the Prince. They are lovers, and he will come back to her when she gets with a handsome, sexy black man.  That is the only thing that will make Prince come back to her. And yes, I mean back, because she made it clear that they have already been together.  But she wouldn't be his groupie, so she left him.  So she asked us about clubs where she could find black men.  She's from Canada, and has been in Israel for 2 weeks.  When she finds her black man, and Prince comes back for her 5 seconds later, Prince will have a concert in Jerusalem, and she will find us and give us tickets.

Oh Michelle, go find your black man!