Scavenger Hunt!!!

Well today was a pretty eventful day...to start it all off we went to a very small Baptist church. And after that we all got split up into teams of 4-5 people. We were all given a sheet of paper, with 10 different riddles. Describing various places around the Old City of Jerusalem. My group didn't have a problem figuring out the riddles themselves, and we also had an idea of where everything was in the city, needless to say we weren't too worried. As soon as our group was allowed to leave we run out of the building, to the mall, and towards the Jappa Gate to get a picture in front of it. The point of this was to not only get a picture in front of the landmark, but also try to get everyone in your group in the the photo. And if your group was able to make the picture creative, you received extra points!

So after our first stop, we actually passed one of the other groups that was ahead of us, and Ran the the Church of Dormition. After that we needed to figure out a way to get to the Western Wall. Well...instead of just running through the city, on the map we had it looked quicker to just go on the outskirts of Jerusalem and follow the wall all the way around until we reached the Dung Gate and then be at our destination. So that's exactly what we did, only we didn't take into consideration eh topography of the valley we were going through! Not only was it very hot out, but we tried to keep a good pace going down and the straight up this "mountain!!" ANd to make it all better once we reached some civilization, we were practically in the slums of Jeruslame,with trash everywhere, people running around with guns, and when we finally asked an Isaraei where the Dung Gaate was, he had no idea what we were talking about. Apparently the call it something sle in Hebrew. But in the end of getting lost because of our stupid mistakes and just not going the way we knew originally we came in last place! But I still had a blast and really did have a great time running around the city of Jerusalme like a complete idiot :)