I am HERE! In the HOLY LAND!

Well we made it safely here after all that yummy kosher food and little sleep on the plane rides! I feel like this is a fairytale I have heard all my life and I am just now living it. Being in the "castles" and right next to the characters. It is so so very outstanding. Today we just got picked up from the airport and toured the center, ate dinner and met some professors. They are all so great. Intense, but I can tell I am going to come home with information I couldn't get from anyone else. It has been a bit awkward all day just meeting people that you know will become your brothers and sisters by the end of the trip basically. Not sure why, but just is. Funny line of the day. This kid sits down to eat dinner on the patio and he's like, "oh just another walk in the park today, ya know, just enjoying my gooloudge* (ill get the spelling of that one down later) as I look at the sun setting into the city where Christ lived, no big deal." Such great people here.