What an amazing day of touring some of the major sites in Jerusalem. In the picture, we are facing the Garden of Gethsemane with the Dome of Rock in the background.  We had just walked half way down the hill from the Mt of Olives, which is longer and steeper than Heart Break Hill in Oakland (from Forbes Ave. up to the VA hospital, past the Peterson Center).  This was Jesus' ride on Palm Sunday. We then went up to tour around the Dome of The Rock and got a glimpse of the western ('Wailing') wall that we are going to tomorrow.   We then toured through a big chunk of Old Jerusalem and moved into our new hotel in Old Jerusalem, near the New Gate. Tomorrow, we travel up the Via Dolorosa and other sights. Our tour guide, Johnny, gets us old folks hopping. We leave for breakfast at 7:00am.

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