It's all good

We had an eventful time getting to Israel today, or is it tomorrow? Or yesterday? We are 9 hours ahead of Mountain Time here in Israel and on top of that our flight was delayed another 9 hours. We actually  took of from JFK but 30 minutes into our flight we had to turn around as one of our engines caught on fire! It was put out quickly and the 747 we were flying has 4 engines and can fly on just one so we were never in real danger...at least that's what the pilot said. We ended up heading back to the airport and spent the night on the floor of JFK. Our entire group were great troopers and we finally arrived here in Israel at 3 a.m. local time and are now headed to our hotel in Bethlehem. We'll get cleaned up and then begin our first day of touring by going to Masada, Qumram, the Dead Sea and several other sights. We have a great guide and our bus has free WiFi so I can post blogs from our bus...how cool is that? For now I'll sign off but please check back in tomorrow...or yesterday...I'm tired and confused :) We all thank God for arriving here safely and we greatly appreciate your prayers.