Today was almost totally up in the air. Our day actually started in the evening at JFK Airport in New York City taking a six hour flight to Paris. People from all over the world flew with us. The third person in our row of seats was a man from Poland. We watched movies on the plane and tried to sleep some and ate two meals.
As we flew I read some of Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad. Samuel Clements travels to the Mediterranean by ship. He talks about a man who bought a new watch before taking the trip, and was totally frustrated with the time piece because once he left the United States it stopped working. Every three days it lost an hour (they crossed a time zone), and he couldn’t get the regulator to adjust for it.
On our flight we lost an hour for every hour of flight. Six hours time change from New York to Paris, then one more as we flew to Israel.
After checking through Paris we boarded our flight to Israel. We sat next to a man from Jerusalem. He told us of some interesting things in Israel. We ate a lunch of pita with mushrooms, Lox on English muffins, potato salad and cheesecake.
The flight was beautiful. We flew over the snow-capped, green-valleyed Alps. We were able to sleep on that flight also.
When we landed, we rented a car, and drove to our accommodations. Sarah was there, as was Philippe, one of the other people who worked at Tel-Gezer. (To see Sarah’s trip, visit http://sjsimon.blogspot.co.il/) We are staying about two blocks from old Joppa. The place we are staying is in the picture. After settling in we went to a Shabbat Dinner at the Jews for Jesus Rosen Center in Tel-Aviv. It was great! We met some new people and had great discussions.
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