I hope you all have a smooth trip to Florida and really get to enjoy your time there (and also hope that your fight with the meds goes well).

And very cool on the prayer to put in the wailing wall.  Very cool indeed.

Thank you my friend, I appreciate the good thought.. and yeh I really got stoked about the prayer thingie in the wall, hard to even imagine a prayer from me even being allowed in the wall...

check it out online Kelly,  it's awesome.. and awe inspiring

Hey MM,  have a fun trip!

I understand about your desire to kick the morphine.  I hope the doc is good.  ANd that is cool about the prayer!

My Aunt and Uncle are down in Orlando (been there since Oct 8 - snow birds).  I got their email, but not their snail mail address, so if you want I can send them an email and tell them to look out for you.

Have a safe trip

I coulda done without knowing that Sabrina. Bitch!

The Western Wall (Hebrew: äëåúì äîòøáé, translit.: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (516 BCE - 70 CE). It is sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall (Arabic: il-Mabka), referring to Jews mourning the destruction of the Temple. The Western Wall is part of the bigger religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem called Har ha-Bayit (the Temple Mount) to Jews and Christians, or Al-Haram al-Qudsi al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims. The Western Wall is revered for its proximity to the sacred Holy of Holies on the Temple Mount, which is the Most Holy Place in Judaism. This means that for Jews the Western Wall is the holiest location that is currently generally accessible to the Jewish people for prayer. There is a small area below ground level, called "The Cave", in the Western Wall Tunnel, that is closest to the site of the Holy of Holies. However, as this area is not amenable to the large groups that frequent the wall, most people limit their visits to the outdoor plaza.

At any hour, Jewish men and women can be found praying at the wall, which is actually a large outdoor synagogue. As is traditional in Jewish synagogues, there are a number of holy arks containing Torah scrolls, tables for reading of the law and a mechitza, or divider, separating the men's and women's sections of the wall. Bar mitzvah celebrations are frequently held here, and people of various ages travel from all over the world to have their ceremonies at the Kotel. It is also a tradition to deposit slips of paper with wishes or prayers on them in the crevices and crannies of the wall. Looking closely, one can see hundreds of tiny, folded papers stuffed inside every space that will hold them.

The Temple in Jerusalem was the most sacred building in Judaism. Herod the Great built vast retaining walls around Mount Moriah, expanding the small, quasi-natural plateau on which the First and Second Temples stood into the wide open spaces of the Temple Mount seen today.

naw, now if YOU were there that would be a different story.

Thank you Donna, if you don't mind me asking are you any where near Orlando?

I will and thank you trudy, we do not get to see this side of the family often enough.