lost in space

Well, we tried to go to Ramalluh. We drove around for 2 hours but could not figure out how to get out of jerusalem, so we ended up at the jaffa gate. We did see David's tower and the mt. of olives in our search to get out of here. part of the problems is there are no signs posted because its 'arab'.. its so very weird here. We also drove thru some 'extra' frum areas with burnt garbage cans in the streets. WE have no idea what that was about. The areas seemed pretty dirty and the areas where the arabs live seem very poor.
We did make it into the jaffa gate and we did manage to spend a few schekles on some cute stuff. Altogehter i have bought one ring, one pair of shoes, 1 blouse and\one cute kaftan. This is after one week here. you know the prices and shopping are not good here. We got pizza and a salad for dinner.. 112 sheckles at a to go place near hebrew university. Good Grief.. that is not quite $40...about double what we pay..
Tomorrow we head to jordan. MArylin found a nice taxi that will take us to the border and the marriott is sending a car to get us from there. yeah.. the dinar is still trading at 70 so we're hoping for a better break..hopefully a real computer and i can download some photos..