You can sense a co-existence, if at all, of Modern Jerusalem and the Suburbs of Bethlehem. A common denominator in going to a restaurant next to Sheperd Fields Church and a hotel restaurant of the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center is good food and uncommon hospitality of big portions and great tasting aioli, marinated chicken and fresh salads and warm people: Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims. Faith, culture and tradition intersect to become passed on heritage and values. In our pilgrimage trip, one common value is family closeness. Pictured here is the Aragon Family, headed by 85 year old Albert who keeps up walking with us, up and down stairs, at times, 19 floors a day, an average of 4.75 miles a day, or 10,900 steps. His wife Alicia, decades younger keeps up as well as Abbey, a 16 year old sophomore in high school. Albert is loved by all of us, he jokingly says he has picked up millions of girlfriends. He takes my left arm while a younger Albert takes my right. We all laughed that I had two older boyfriends for a grandma like moi. #qtstoursandtravel2019 #bethlehem #jerusalem #holylandpilgrimage #footstepsofJesus
