The road to Yerushalaim is getting well known

Sunday was the fast of the 17th of Tammuz. Thinking about breaching the walls of the Old City that we just seen first hand made it all the more significant. Unfortunately small children cannot be entertained by thoughts alone, so some sort of outing had to be planned. We gave Dovie the option of staying home and hanging out with Shlomo, where he could play hours of uninterrupted DS, PSP and Ipad or come with us to a museum.  Hmmm... which do you think he chose?
Since we now had an open space in our car, we took Shayna along because she enthusiastically said she "wouldn't mind coming along with us." We chose the Israel Museum (back to Yerushalaim - which I drove for the first time) on the recommendation of our tour guide and confirmed with my sister.  Those reasons and it was open on Sundays. 50NIS for adults and 25NIS for kids 5-17 which included an audio guide. For some reason they gave us the electronic audio guides for the entire museum, but only a map of the Second Bais HaMikdash model instead of a map of the whole museum. So, we just decided to go straight and enter the first hall we came to.
The Youth wing was exhibiting  "Good Night - Leila Tov". Most of it was kinda weird and out there, however the kids REALLY liked a life size room and bed of the  Good Night Moon book. Even the docent was impressed that I know the whole book by heart and was able to recite it while the kids tried to find everything mentioned in the story. Outside we all sat on giant Hand chairs, stroked the brass pipe smoking man's head (apparently he likes it) and watched the kids climb the structure that looked like a cat puking, but they were happy.
We roamed around other halls which included statues and pottery from a millennium ago. We then attracted the attention of other security guards and docents as the kids TOUCHED some of these ancient artifacts.  We stumbled upon a very interesting exhibit on Chassidim. They did a fairly positive depiction of Chassidic life which was nice to see. The kids could relate to it much more than the Greek, Roman and Ottoman statues.  The shuls from other countries and eras was very interesting. Being able to completely walk into them was very neat. I think we should all have sand in the shul. It would keep the kids much quieter and Zen like. The adults too.
I brought apples for the kids to eat because really, how my Bissli and Bamba can a kid eat (a lot!). It ended up being a perfect choice for a photo op in front of the GIANT apple core sculpture which is just begging to be climbed, but according to the security guard (they must have decided that we were worth more careful observation) cannot not be. 

Finally we made it to the Second Temple Model. We would have stayed longer, but some of our group were getting cranky and hungry (Bailey and Levi). Back to RBS to relax until Break the Fast at the Bermans.