Orientation

It is so late on Monday evening that i can't write of the richness already of coming to Jerusalem--with all its tradition and all its conflicts out in front all the time.

Our Israeli and Palestinian guides spoke to us briefly after we had dinner together tonight in the 5th floor dining room of this lovely little hotel that used to be a YMCA that sits right on the edge of East Jerusalem. You can see West Jerusalem from the windows of the restaurant.

I am not sure how these two pictures accompanying this post will turn out as I took them with the ipad
The one is our gathering after dinner tonight; the secon out the window of my room.

Tomorrow we visit the holy sites of the three Abrahamic religions. Wake up call at 6:00 a.m.