Day 9 - Jerusalem

Since Randy missed the Segway experience last Monday we did a Segway tour today but this time in Jerusalem. Of course Mark is on his way back to Houston and plans to work tomorrow. I am expecting to hear that he had a hard day on Tuesday.

Interesting that this tour took us right by the Avissar House where Charlene and I stayed last fall on our trip with David and Edith Bush. (and where we stayed the year before with the Roses.)  While we there before we saw the Segways go by our apartment several times and thought that it would be fun to try.

Tomer our guide asked us what is the difference in Catholics and others. That led me to essentially give him the story of Jesus. He wants to go to school to be a guide and I told him he would learn a lot about Christianity in the guide school. He told us about a baptism place just north of the Dead Sea and opposite Jericho. That gave the opportunity to get a New Testament in Hebrew and read the book of Matthew. He said, "I have one."

In the afternoon Randy wanted to visit the Israel Museum so that gave us the opportunity for him to see the Jerusalem model and to visit the Shrine of the Book where most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed.

Shrine of the Book Museum roof