Aliya l'regel- the holy city of Jerusalem

I went to Yerushalayim on a two day trip last sunday. I got off the bus at the tachana mercazit. The "new" tachana. As opposed to the old one or the old new one - the temporay central bus station that was in use for two years or so while they were building the new one in the place of the old one. First of all, after having lived in and around Jerusalem for a few years it is so strange how now, after not living there for awhile instead of it being home it is a big city (compared to my present home) with ALOT of old memories. Alot has changed in 11 years but so many things are the same. So, first I went to see the new tachana. It is like a small mall. A small food court, decent bathroom. I wanted bagels, so I left the mall to go to "holy bagel". It was closed :(. I was sleeping at a friend, but I knew she wasn't home and was busy, so I had some time to kill. I love walking in Jerusalem, it is one of the things I miss about living there. I don't miss how pushy and in a hurry people can be though. I continued up rechov yaffo, toward the shuk. They built this big new wall across from the french hospital(?),right before the gas station, for the life of me I cannot remember what that part of the street used to look like. I past the shuk and the memories swarmed around me. I remember all the different shopping trips there, inlcuding my trip with my (then) chasan to buy household stuff. I remeber trips there as a single seminary girl being overwhelmed bot the many new sights and sounds. I remember being heavy with preganancy, living a long bus ride away from the shuk but still insisting on shopping there, for the experience. Shlepping home a big, overstuffed, back pack. And then as a young mother, baby in a backpack, going to my regular vedors and picking up my regular shuk items on thursday, for shabbos.
The menmories continued to flood my mind as I walked through this holy city, so dear to my heart.

Finally finished and posted this post, almost a year later (sep. 13, 05), after finding it unfinished. I planned it to be much longer, a whole walk through of my trip, but, I'll just post it as is.