Bethlehem!

 

Outside the Church of the Nativity. I got their earlier than our group because our security guards drove me up because i couldn't walk as far.

Hilarious! This priest walked past me and i tried hard to keep up with him but i couldn't walk as fast with my cane. ha Chrissy got this picture as i was still chasing after him.

With Nate and Neil before we entered the Church of the Nativity. I love that i once went to Elementary school with Nate.

This gate has been shrunk 3 different times. The last one, as seen above is so people can't come into the church on their horse.

This is where Christ was born. You can stick your hand down to touch the stone where it happened. We had to walk down into a small little cave to get here. It was ridiculously humid. I wouldn't like to come during Christmas when people wait over an hour just to get to this spot.

This is where Christ was put into his manger. Not what i imagined.

Once you pass through this door you are supposedly forgiven of your sins. I walked though a few times to make sure ALL my sins were gone. haha

Inside the Church. It was beautiful! I would have loved to here people sing in here.

Confession booth. Need i say more?!

Inside the Church at Bethlehem University. The Jews and Christians both worship here. It was really interesting to hear from students and their experience of spending hours to cross the border everyday just to go to school. It was also interesting to hear their point of view of the whole Israeli/ Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli's bombed many parts of Palestine. One of them came into the university. Luckily no students were injured. They left this in the wall to remember.

Below, we ate lunch at Shepard's Valley Village. Okay, it was AMAZING. We had all these dips for our pita's. Not to mention all the free Diet Coke i got from talking it up with the waiter. I LOVE AMAZING FOOD!