Shabbat Dinner with friends in Jerusalem

Our friends Ronan and Sara invited us to come down to Jerusalem for the weekend .They also have boys the same age as ours, we all had a great time, Dinner was amazing !!! Sara's Mom is from Morocco and the traditional friday night Israeli meal had many Moroccan offerings.
Before heading over ,we got an early start and decided to explore the ancient city of David. The tour explained how the the city of Jerusalem was created and how King David united the twelve tribes of Israel by building a capital city.

Going back more than 3,000 years outside the Old City we walked through the ruins of King David's Palace and the original Jerusalem . The Gihon Spring is located here and was main source of water for Jerusalem and one of the reasons for choosing this area ,the other reason was the proximity to the first temple

The people who lived here before it was captured by David had a secret tunnel to gather water ( in the Book of Samuel it states that David conquered Jerusalem from its prior inhabitants by sneaking up the water shaft and launching a surprise attack on the city from the inside) We went through the hand hewn tunnel (Warren's Shaft ) as well as another tunnel built years later (Hezekiah's tunnel )where we walked through the water (sometimes waist deep) The 25 minute walk in the spring with flashlights in hand was definitely the most fun we have had at any of the ancient sites we have explored. Our guide read the story from the Old Testament describing the siege to us while we were inside the tunnel. It was very cool !