Goodbye Israel July 14, 2013

Maybe we should have taken some pictures at 2:00am when our driver picked us up at the hotel but nobody in our group was up for that!  We left our hotel at 2:00am.  We had to drive to Tel Aviv for our flight.  It was about an hour and everyone except me slept on the way.  Our flight was on time.  We had to fly to Frankfurt, Germany, to Houston, then to Birmingham.  It was a 25 hour trip home.  We would do it again.  It was a trip of a lifetime.
Everyone that we told we were going to Israel before we left asked us "why" and "aren't you scared"...the answers:  Why wouldn't you want to go see the birthplace of our faith?  And are we scared...absolutely not.  Even when we first saw the people from the West Bank with automatic weapons.  It was shocking, but we never felt scared or threatened in any way.  Israel is a place that everyone, regardless of their faith should visit.  It for our family was a pilgrimage and I did not realize it until it was over.  Our guide Zvika took good care of us and kept us on track so we did not miss anything.  He was great.
We did it all.  Loved it all.  Would do it all over again.  Hope that we will.