I don't know how much this was talked about in the States, but President Bush has been here in Yerushalayim since...Tuesday? Possibly Wednesday, I'm clearly not exactly hooked into the local news. But everywhere he goes, EVERYTHING shuts down. He staying (just him and his posse) at the King David hotel, and apparently everyone who lives around there was basically advised to not leave their houses while he was here. He went to visit Beit Lechem and the Gush area and they cloesd down the highways into Gush Etzion (which is hysterical, as more then half the teachers couldn't get back home for a good chunk of time)
Anyway, Eliana and I just thought this was the absolute coolest thing ever. One of the visiting alums had been out in Yerushalyim, just walking, and some guy (unclear if he was from America or Israel) wouldn't let her cross the street for a few minutes and she watched while the Presidential motorcade went by. Cool, right?
So Eliana and I decided (well, more Eliana decided and convinced me) that we should go wander around the city in hopes this would happen to us and we could wave and squeal like girls. So we hopped the bus, got off at a random stop and started walking. (at 10:30 Thursday night, by the way) Just to clarify how vague our plan was, we had NO IDEA where the Kind David hotel was, never mind how to get there from our random stop. But we saw evidence that the President had passed by from all of those crowd-control barriers set up and lots of those "Police barrier: Do not pass" streamer-things wrapped around them (except they were in Hebrew, so I couldn't really understand them.) And we passed a hotel where a lot of press were staying (identifiable from those little press tag things aroung their necks) and we passed a sign saying "Bring Pollard Home."
We took lots of pictures, but my camera cannot take good pictures in the dark, so a lot of mine are blurry. We ended up on Ben Yehudah (not deliberatly, we just walked straight.) and bought hot chocolate before running to catch the bus back. We were sure we were going to be past curfew, (which we were 12:48 when curfew's at 12:30) but when we got on the bus, our madricha got on with us! So we chatted with her for a bit, and she didn't seem so bothered when we got back late. We all signed in, so the school may comment to us about it, they might not. It's not the worse thing you could do, and Eliana and I have stellar records to boot.
This week is Shabbos Rammim, so I have to go the makolet and grab cookies or something for a gift before the bus leaves from school at 2. I'm mostly packed, and I'm psyched for next week!! (Mom and Zvi are coming to visit! Wooohooo!)
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