shabbos on TRY

An Israeli shabbat is a shabbat to remember. The streets are hushed and all problems and stress floats away. On Friday night we got dressed in our shabbos clothes (compliments of ally :] ), and took pictures on the lawn. Although it wasn't as warm as it's been the past few days, the sun shown through and it was a cloudless day. We had signed up for synogogues the day before, and we walked to our temples in groups. I chose the reform synogogue because I'm not the biggest fan of Conservative or Orthodox, even though I'm on a conservative program. TOO MUCH PRAYING. it's overkill. we pray three times a day, its ridiculous. but anyways, I was one of the few that actually enjoyed the service. It dragged a little, but they harmonized beautifully and the people were all really nice. Afterwards, we walked back and had dinner as a group. Aside from getting locked in the grundgiest bathroom ever for about 7 minutes (scariest thing ever), it was a nice evening and after some song and dance, we head to bed. In the morning, we went to Kedem, a conservative synogogue in the area. It was too long and there were a few things that were just really weird. They had a nice oneg outside and most people spoke English which was nice. We spent the rest of the day lazing in the sun, napping, reading and spending time together. The end of the evening we did Havdallah. It was amazing all being together arms linked, as cliche as it sounds, and sharing our experiences of our first shabbat in Jerusalem of TRY '09. I cant tell this is going to be one hell of an adventure, and I mean that in a good way.