You Mormon?

Almost without fail everytime we go through the old city someone asks us "You Mormon? I give you special deal." And in the words of my roommate "yeah, special jacked-up deals." I think that we're all slowly becoming better bargainers. I still have some work to do, but then again all of I've bought so far is some Jesus' sandals, and gummy candies. I'm still trying to find a skirts and scarves I want.

So a little more about Ramparts Walk (the walk around the city on the wall). It was really incredbile to be able to see the city from above. I didn't realize how many stories high the city was. When you're down on the street everything just looks like it is one story high, with all of the stores on the street. From above you can see the homes where all of the people live above their shops. We all decided that it kind of reminded us of Aladdin, because you can see all of the rooftops in this old city. On their roofs you can see all sorts of things, including everyone's laundry out on the line. My favorite thing was probably the little kids that we would pass sometimes. Towards the end of our walk there were a group of 5 or so little kids that were singing us a song and clapping (I believe in Arabic). They were darling! After they finished their song they yelled things like "I love you, I love you!" and "What's your name?" So we talked to the cute little kids on their roof while we were on top of the city wall.
Another cool thing about being on the wall was just simply looking at the wall. There were slits in the wall where you can shoot arrows and such. I really did feel like I had gone back in time.

A note more about going to Dome of the Rock. We've been told that sometimes it is difficult to get access to the Temple Mount, which is where the Dome of the Rock is. So we were pretty excited when we got access our very first try. Granted they only let us stay up there for about an hour, but it was still really neat. We also aren't allowed to go into the Dome of the Rock, but it was neat to be able to be just outside it. It's truly a beautiful building. It is definitely the building that catches my eye anytime I look out any window at the Jerusalem Center.

Yesterday I had falafel for the first time, and I already love it! I also already don't know what I'm going to do when I leave Jerusalem and I can't have pita bread for every meal. Today I already had toasted pita for breakfast, and a pita sandwhich for lunch, and I believe we're having shawarma for dinner tonight. The food here is great, it's just difficult sometimes to make sure I don't eat too much. I'm not used to having unlimited amounts of food at meals. And a lot of the food here is deep fried. Probably one my absolute favorites is the deep fried french toast that they have for breakfast everyday. And they have chololate syrup stuff to put on top. So not healthy! So I've decided to limit my deep fried french toast eating to only on the Sabbath. The only thing I really miss is good desserts. I'm not a big fan of the desserts that they feed us here, but that's probably a good thing considering the food isn't extremely healthy, and actually some of the normal food they feed us should probably count for a dessert. Like this morning we couldn't quite figure out what one of the dishes was, all we know is it tasted like cheese cake... for breakfast :)