Day 3: Friday, April 13th: blog from Laurel and Sara

We started our day at 6:30 to pray, then soon after we got on the bus. The bus ride was one hour to get to an archaeological dig site. At the dig site we dug up dirt from over 2,000 years ago and found shards of pottery that used to either be plates, cups or bowls. We went into tunnels from thousands of years ago, and one tunnel had candles to light the way. In the tunnels we went into there were holes from where the people used to raise pigeons for sacrifice, food, and fertilizer (We are sure you know how they used the pigeons for fertilizer). After crawling through the tunnels we came back to the hotel to rest and clean up. We will be praying at the Kotel today for Shabbat and enjoying our first Shabbat dinner in Israel later tonight.

-Laurel and Sara