In the Holy Land

We're in Israel! Today was our first real day here. Getting here was an adventure in itself, though! We had a nine-hour layover in Newark so we hopped on a train into NYC for dinner. Picture it - Saturday night in New York City right before Christmas. It was crazy! But we got to see Times Square and the tree at Rockefeller Center, which was very cool. Especially considering my only experience with NY prior was a one-day trip 10 years ago.
So three hours in the city and a 10-hour flight later, here we are, in the Holy Land.
I don't think I understood how appropriate that name really is until now. I didn't realize how much history is really here. Today we saw the Bahai Temple in Haifa, a Jewish synagogue from the 1600s in Safed, and a fortress built by the Crusaders in Akko. It's kind of overwhelming. Tomorrow we make our way to Jerusalem. More history to come!
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