Israel Trip Day 1

Heading off to Israel for a trip that was sure to be a once in a lifetime experience!

Our flight was delayed almost 3 hours leaving Houston.  We only had 1 1/2 hours in Munich, Germany to make our connection to Tel Aviv.  Obviously, that did not work out.  We were quite bummed because it looked like we would have to spend the night in Munich to catch the only flight on that airline which was the next morning.  Instead, the airline booked us on a flight that night on another airline!  We were thrilled!  Mallory was particularly happy because she had wanted to spend some time in Europe.  We had about 9 hours, so we took the subway and headed into the city.

This living statue was so good!  It was freaky to walk by thinking he was a statue and then see him move a little.

We made it to our hotel at 5:30 am....without our luggage!  We took a brief 2 hour nap and were up ready to go with our group by 9:00 - in the same clothes.  I'll just skip to the end and say that although we were supposed to have our luggage delivered to our hotel that night, it did not happen.  We got it the next evening.  We had to go buy one outfit each because the ones we had worn for 3 days were a bit gross.