Mea She'arim and Mahane Yehuda again

Today my mom and I ventured to Mea She'arim, a very religious Jewish neighborhood. It is not a particularly nice neighborhood though. It kind of looks like a nice version of the slums. We only walked the outskirts of it though because we were not wearing skirts and people didn't look extremely friendly. Also, we didn't want to push our luck because in tour books it says that if a person does something that these religious Jews don't tolerate, for example driving on Shabbat, they will throw stones at you. And we were not in any mood to have stones thrown at us. Very religious male Jews wear black suits with white dress shirts and long black trench coats it all. They all wear kippahs and or tall black hats. Most of them also have peyos. Peyos are the curly ques of hair that are long and are right in front of their ears. And on Shabbat they wear fur hats that are very odd looking. Very religious female Jews wear long (almost floor length) black skirts with darkly colored sweaters and loafer shoes. Some women also cover there hair with a thick black hair nets or straight dark brown wigs. Both men and women most be very conservatively dressed and wear their attire year round. It must get extremely hot in the summer time!

After sort of being scared away, my mom and I walked back to Mahane Yehuda, the large market, because we were very close and in need of some lunch. We walked around the market and bought some little pastries as a snack until we found lunch because we wanted to wander around the market some more. The market wasn't as crowded as it was last Friday so I didn't feel as claustrophobic. We bought some broccoli and bread to go with our dinner for tonight. After we were done wandering around we stopped at a falafel stand. Falafel is fried chick pea batter. Chick peas are garbanzo beans. Falafel as a meal/food dish has sauces and vegetables as well as the fried chick pea batter in it. Instead of bread the dish is put in pita bread. The falafel we had today had the chick pea batter, cucumbers, tomatoes, hummus and tahini sauce. It was very delicious!