Here we are sitting in our new home in the Holy Land (whoop whoop). After a long flight with lots of crying babies, food that should never be eaten and no sleep, being here is good. We had some trouble getting in and everyone and their grandparents want to see your passport, i guess if you look like 2 dirty Americans then curiosity and suspicion kicks in. Oh man, so I have to tell you about our experience at this one check point, we were sitting in these chairs till our names got called and across this way was this man, at first he was just sitting there but then…he got up and made his rounds to the people surrounding him, first with a big smile but then…with one too many kisses, then guess who’s turn it was? He slowly walked our direction, sat across from us and gave us the shifty eyes, “not the shifty eyes” i thought. When he had his chance he made the connection, shaking our hands and kissing us way to many times and a little close to our lips, i mean way way to close. He got really close to drew, put one arm around him and the other on his upper thigh… and at first we thought it was a cultural thing because what do we know? so he started chatting in his language while continuing to kiss drew and then more kissing. Then later on a security lady came over to me and apologized for the inconvenience of this man saying “he’s not all the way there mentally” and that he is in the process of getting kicked out of the country, so it explained it all and later on we found out that you either get kissed once on a cheeck or once on both cheeks, never should anyone kiss you more than that, so drew had an awkward experience. All that to say, the experiences just keep rolling in.
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