As it turned out, today was a very long day indeed. It began at 6:00 am local time in Jerusalem (that's 7 hours ahead of the local time in Ontario), and it didn't end until almost midnight Eastern Standard Time.
During this day, we visited En Karem (see the post just below), and then headed for the airport. Did you know that one of the best security screening programs for travellers is found at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv? It's all based on getting to know their travellers, and they use all kinds of tactics. In fact, from a travellers' point of view, it seems as though the aim is to get under our skin, just so they can test the authenticity of travellers.
We were warned to leave lots of time for the security scans. In fact it took almost three hours from the time we walked through the doors of the airport until we arrived at the gate where we boarded the flight. After this, we were in for an 11 1/2 hour flight directly to Toronto, and then a three hour wait for the connecting flights to our respective home towns.
No wonder we slept almost all the way on the last leg of the flight, and no wonder some of us are still falling asleep at strange hours, while others think that we should be wide awake. They say that it takes a day for each hour of time change in order to re-adjust to the proper time zone. If that's true, I should be back to fighting form in no time.
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