Bethlehem

We took our annual trip to Bethlehem and Hailey was a little frightened by the Roman soldiers. She saw them drag a guy across the ground by his arms because he didn't pay his census tax. Then we saw Mary screaming in pain about to give birth, and later got to see her and baby Jesus in the stable. There were 2 occasions when the kids were using their schekels to buy stuff when a thief would come and steal all the money from the shops. The locals would all scream "thief" and it kind of caught the kids off guard. Hailey kept asking why there were so many bad guys? It is pretty amazing how real they make it feel, everyone is in character 100%. When Shane was making his candle holder they asked him where he was from and how far he traveled. It was funny because Shane is so literal and answered Texas. The guy acted totally confused and said, "where is that, never heard of it.". Then Shane told him he came out on an airplane, that really confused the store keeper.