My Adventure!

Today I went on an adventure during lunch with my friend Aliza.  Okay, so you have to remember that we have two hours for lunch, from 1:00-3:00.  Sounds like a lot of time right? Not really. We spent the first half hour eating chicken for lunch (and cucumbers, there are always cucumbers, so many cucumbers!)
Then we wanted to explore Jerusalem to see if we could find a place to bike because we're thinking of renting bikes.  I heard that there was a park near the central bus station which is about a 15 minute train ride/ hour walk.  We decided to take the train there so we walked the 15 minutes it takes to get to the train.  We thought we might walk for a little bit since we had so much time but we saw the train coming around the corner so we decided to take it.  We got on the train and then realized that we didn't exactly know where the park was or what it was even called.  We were wondering how to say park and bicycle in Hebrew, when a nice lady realized what we were talking about and kinda told us how to get there.
We got off the train at our stop at around 2:00 and began walking in the direction that she told us to walk in.  We had to ask for directions a couple more times because we really had no idea where we were going.  But after about 15 minutes of wandering around, we finally found it. At first glance it just looked like a soccer field where a bunch of yeshivah boys were playing soccer, but then we saw a little path and decided to follow it thinking that it would make a little circle around the field.  We walked up the path and saw that there was so much more to the park but we would still be able to follow the path around.  Still walking 15 minutes later, we realized that the park was much bigger than we thought and we still hadn't quite gone all the way around it.  We finally came back to the beginning at around 2:30 and decided that we had enough time to go to the shuk and the walk back for class.  Now it was a very hot day outside and we had just done all that walking and yet we still decided to walk a little more.  We walked a little of the way down the shuk smelling the amazing smells and looking at how cheap the prices of fruit were and then we decided to go back.  We realized we didn't have much time to get back to school so we decided to take the train... and there it was at the stop a block ahead of us.  We ran like crazy to catch the train in the boiling hot sun... and we made it!  We took the train back to our stop, walked/ jogged to our school, and made it just in time for class.  Yes, we were quite sweaty but, we had our adventure, did some exploring, and even made it to class on time in under and hour and a half. More explorations coming soon.  Shalom V'lehitraot!