20 Minute Vacation

Do you ever think that you ca take a twenty minute vacation? Well you can.
Here is how:

This kids are off to school (if you have school age kids), so turn off your call phone, let the machine pick up the house phone and prepare to be relaxed for the next twenty minutes.

Put on your favorite lounge wear
Make something that you don't usually make, such as a tropical drink or a mugs of herdal tea (my favorite). Think of where you would like to be and find from your music collection a cd that remind you of that place.
Slip it in the cd player.
Now grab a magazine, your drink and find the most comfortable easy/lounge chair.

For the next twenty minutes do nothing except sip your drink, leaf through you magazine, listen to you music and let transport you to that paradise you are think of.

For twenty minutes do nothing but love you, trust me, you will want to do it again soon.

P.S. If you are at work, Just find a quite place to sit where you can tune out what's going on around you, and enjoy just being.

Places I visit

I often hear someone says "what you are looking for is right under your nose". Well I prove that to be so true a few weeks ago. James took me to Brooklyn, just for a drive and it was like being in another state. The streets with cobbler stone and the quietness of the area was different from what one would expect to find in Brooklyn, NY.

Then we went to a little park right on the waterfront, it was so peaceful, I have lived in NY for over 30 years and did not know that there are such beauty right under my nose.

From there we went to the promenade that overlooks all of downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn.

We saw the boats go by and the sunset was awesome.

Sorry I did not get a clearer picture on Manhattan at night.

The Places I visited in Israel

On my trip to Israel I visited many places that we read about in the bible, It was an awesome experience. Here are some of the places, they are not in the order in which I visited

This is the place where Jesus perform His first Miracle, this is the actual spot and this church is build over it.

The Church of Annunciation - where the angel told Mary she will be the mother of Jesus

Bethlehem - The birthplace of Jesus

The Church of the Nativity - where Jesus was born

The Church of Flagellation

The Church of Condemnation - Here He was thrown into a pit after He was arrested, ( I actually went into the pit)

The Room in which they had the Last Supper. The is a window from that room.

The Church of St. Anne (Mary's mother)

Statue of St Anne and Mary as a child

The church on the mount of the Beatitudes with it beautiful gardens

The garden of Gesthemane.

A 2000 year old tree in which Zacheaus climb in to see Jesus in Jericho

Jordan River in which he was baptized.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchure

The Garden Tomb where many believe is the burial and Resurrection site of the Lord.

The Dead Sea, it is not a sea but actually a lake, so called because there are no living thing in it because of its high salt content. I also visited Masada, where King Herod build his mount Fortress.

Where He told Peter "Upon this rock I will build my church

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Next we visited their underground water system which they on longer use.

This is what the animals would eat from. (Baby Jesus laid in one for a crib)

Behind me is a silo in which grain was stored to feed the city.

Next stop was Megiddo, We went into the old city. This is a model of the city

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Then off we went, stopped at the old aqueduct and stepped into the Mediterranean sea.

I left NY JFK on Tuesday, 10/28 at 9:30pm, got to my hotel in Tiberias on Wednesday 10/29 at 10:pm. Had dinner and settled in for the night. Wake up call was 6:30 am on Thursday, dressed, breakfast (buffet) and on the buss by 8:30 to meet out tour guide. Our first stop was Ceseara where went into the old theater, the view was breath taking.