Visiting Asheville featuring Anita and Claire, and Grandma

My Israel trip ended, I will post more pics of the end of my trip soon,  and I flew to Asheville where my mom is in the summer months,

We met up with Anita and Claire too,  Anita and I were using the same adoption agency, and their online group, but when my mom unexpectedly met Anita at her hotel in Antigua when she was visiting Claire , and brought her to my house there, we realized that we had met years previously through a mutual friend in Playa del Carmen!

Here are some pictures from our reunion.

Here are the before and after pictures, 3 years ago, and now, claire and isabella, anita and me

Isabella and Claire with Anita 2005

                                               And Claire grabbed my mom's hand, in the first      

                                                                                          momment.

Grandma and the girls

Beautiful Claire
Our girls have grown up sp fast, now three, Anita
Woops we got close

We went up into the curvy mountains to a beautiful lake, we went on a boat ride,

Here are the girls in the butterfly and flower area, of the Asheville nature center,

They look like butterflys themselves,

FFF Theme Having A Ball #51

                 Having A Ball on the Carousel in Israel!                                 

       

                              Having  a great time in an oasis in the Dead Sea

                   Surrounded by desert and a very salty lifeless sea, is a water hole 

                   and Isabella is cooling off

                                            

           

I just love that boat ride, Sea of Galilee

Well here we are again, another week has gone by so fast, we are back, from our Israel trip, and I have been so busy, but I will update on the last part of the trip soon, now I am visiting Mom in Asheville N.C. , and have a momment to post this weeks Favorite Foto Friday, with Sarah's group,

Having  A Ball!

CRAZY HAIR AND BED HEADS! FFF #50

We return to Favorite Foto Friday, Our every friday posts with Sarah's group, and i am posting thursday because tomorrow I will be traveling to Tel Aviv, and I am not sure if I will have internet, or time.

This week is Crazy Hair and Bed Heads, and I thought i wouls post a series of pictures I took recently in Tzfat Israel, which are bed pictures, or Blanky pictures, which Isabella is so attached to!

Here is sleeping beauty, otherwise known as with her blanky!

 My precious dozing off,
Pretending to doze off??
I guess we'll call this messy hair

                               Here is a close up from the same series.

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Walking Home From Classes

I started taking some courses in this great Holy City of Tzfat, Here are some pictures on my way home today, coming from the Old city. The mountain peaks are the famous Mount Meron,

where the great one will come from.

Jumping To The Here And Now in The Holy City ; TZFAT

Here is Isa where we are staying with her new turtle friend, who is eating a grape, from the vine in front of my door, what delicious grapes!

and one of her blanky pictures as well...



I thought I would jump to where I am right now, since many of you have mentioned that you are catching up with my trip, so we are in the Holy city of Tzat or Sefat, and you definately can feel it here, not to mention a tremendos view, which I wil show you later. 

We arrived on friday , and had great Tzfat hospitality from the momment that we arrived.

Friday night before sundown, begins Shabbat, and the stores start to close, and everyone is getting ready for this rest day, and prayer day. We were invited for the friday night Shabbat meal, and the saturday noon meal, where all preperations for food are done before hand, and cooking is not allowed, not to mention other things as well.

The Dead Sea Continuing My Israeli Trip

Isabella and I went down to the Dead Sea to rest up from our busy group tour schedule, but first we went with the group to the famous Masada, which was built high up in the middle of the desert by that famous King Herod. The Dead Sea is the lowest point of sea level in the world. It is so full of salt that fish cannot live there, but its minerals have done wondes to many. This is me with my black mud treatment, that you pull right out of the sand/sea. After you let it dry a little, you go into the waters, and you float, carefully trying not to let any waters splash into your eyes. not for young girls, the salt and minerals are too strong, Isabella just watched everyone and laughed! and yes it was HOT!!!!

We are at The Masada, with The Dead Sea as a back drop

We went up on a cable car, although many climb up, starting at dawn.

MORE OLD CITY IN JERUSALEM Jewish Quarter

Here is one of the entrences to the Jewish Quarter, and i took afew pictures outside before i walked in,                                         

 Take a look at the Israeli solders, who i believe were touring at this momment, very often you will see this, as a custom, to learn about their country

Entering Jerusalem, Israel Trip

Here again is the view of The Old City in Jerusalem, consisting of The Jewish Quarter, The Christian Quarter, The Moslem Quarter, and The Aranian Quarter. When we drove back to Jerusalem there is a park with this view, and our group assembled there to welcome in this Great City.

We later went to the old city



,,,,,,Here is our group picture, and if you look closely at the wall at the entrence to the Jewish Quarter it is full of bullet holes

Artifacts from the First and Second Holy Temple in Jerusalem