After school, Jon met his father near the Old City. After walking through the gentrified Mamilla and picking up some sachlab in the Old City, they went to the Davidson Center and the Southern Wall excavations. Even though both have done the tour many times previously they still enjoyed it a lot, as there is always something forgotten or something new to see. They spent much of the time latching onto different passing tour groups and hearing various explanations of the significance of the area (a Bar Mitzva tour, a Birthright group, and a Christian Mission discussed the stairs to the Temple as spiritual rising, historically interesting, and the location of Jesus' confrontation with the money lenders, respectively).
For dinner we met up with Abba and Ima, as well as Shai and Layla Mintz and a family friend from Detroit. Jon ordered the mixed grill, which is supposed to be a pile of random animal bits, but it came with no explanations so it might as well have been plain chicken. Oh well.
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