Jerusalem Day 4 (Monday May 18, 2009 Evening)

(Sorry for the delay in posting. The Hotel Internet in Haifa did not work for me to post this blog)
We were unfortunately not able to meet my relative, Nomi Sela (Moses) last night. She was with a large group traveling to Jerusalem and they had traveled during the very hot day yesterday from Haifa. Jackie and I decided to go to the same very good restaurant, Al Dente, as we did the night before. We tried to get a taxi driver at the hotel to drive us to the restaurant at 50 Ussishkin Street. We had a funny experience in that I mispronounced the name of the street and the taxi driver did not know the small restaurant and did not know the street. I showed him the address in the Fodor’s guide and he still did not know the location. The driver conferred with 4 other taxi drivers and the bell man and finally they came up with the correct pronunciation of the street and the location. I realized later that they could only read Hebrew or Arabic and not the Roman letters in the English Fodor Guide. They were depending on my pronunciation to get the street name correct. We had another very good dinner. We ordered ravioli and were given a choice of sweet potato, spinach, or salmon ravioli. We were also given a choice of 5 sauces. We chickened out and chose spinach ravioli with tomato sauce.

After dinner we went back one more time to the Old City of Jerusalem and on our way back to the hotel we came across some Israeli people dancing to Israeli music. I took a video of this delightful event, but it is too big a file to post from the hotel.