On Wednesday, we were divided up into buddy groups and pilgrim families - my buddy group of three is paired up with another buddy group of 2, making our family of 5 - Patrick from Houston, and Maida from Canada are my buddies, and Patrick and Billy from the Bahamas together make our family. The purpose of these families is to look out for each other throughout the course and for today, to create small groups that can manage today's assignment a little better than a whole group of 35. Each family was assigned a particular quarter in the city to explore, and ours was the Muslim Quarter.
We decided to start first with a walk on the ramparts from Damascus Gate, exiting at St. Stephen's Gate, and then walked up the first part of the Via Dolorosa.
More views from the ramparts
We found a cafe at a crossroads across from the Austrian hostel and ordered lunch, made complete with minty lemonade for everyone!
Lamb shish-kabobs - yum!
This was a great spot for people watching, and we even wondered out loud about others who might have been sitting along this same busy street the day that Jesus came through, carrying his cross...
After dinner, Patrick, Caitlin my roommate, and Justin (a fellow Sewanee grad) met up in the library for a round of Spades. The Sewanee team beat the PKs - woo hoo! Something tells me there'll be a rematch!
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