Shalom from the Holy Land

We are in Jerusalem! However, it is quite a story in getting here. It is one of the stories we will have for the future. Because we used our faulty bathroom scales to weigh our suitcases, our bags were overweight. Fortunately, the airport official at the curb helped us by running to get our tickets while we lightened our load back into our car which Aaron took care of for us. After a delay and a change of planes in Salt Lake, we were not able to make our connection in Washington, DC to Vienna, Austria so we were rerouted to JFK airport where we were received by a pick pocket who took all the American money we had for our hotel! This we did not realize until we were ready to board our flight to Vienna. We did not and still do not know how to report it. I have tried to find a phone number online for JFK security and get the parking lot security. If anyone knows, please let me know. We tried to sleep on the overnight flight, but sleeping is something we don't do very well even under the best of conditions.

In Vienna, we were extremely happy to see that all our bags arrived given the plane changes. We look quite the sight with two huge carts with all our bags. We never travel light and this was no exception, but we just seem to NEED all this equipment. We will post the picture once we learn how. The taxis were happy to see us. Fortunately, we found a company that had vans and though our driver did not speak English we were able to finally find our hotel called the Pension Nosseck which is right in the heart of the "opera district?" This made it easy for walking around and catching subways. It was a relief to flop into bed and regroup for the following day.