Seems like I pick on the Matts quite a bit, but I'm really not intending to do so. However, I must share a story about Matt Seivers that gave me a chuckle today.
This evening, we visited the Western Wall and had a wonderful tour of the secret passages under the Muslim quarter. The tour ended right at the Wailing Wall. Gentiles (guys, that is) can go down to the wall as long as they have their heads covered. In fact, they provide paper yamakas (I know, I spelled it wrong) for those that don't have coverings. So the guys headed down to the wall. Now Matt was wearing a baseball cap, so he didn't have to use the paper yamaka. As the guys strolled along the wall, watching all the devout Jews bobbing, chanting, and wailing...Matt decided to grab an open place on the wall and to just use it for prayer. So Matt knelt down and started praying. As he did this, he decided to take off his hat (big no, no). Those of us observing this whole thing saw the Jews on both sides of Matt start to talk and point. What was Matt doing? Was he trying to make a graphic point at the Wailing Wall? Was he going to be removed from the area by the Rabbis or the Israeli police? After all, Kelly (Hanna's husband) was asked to leave a kosher cafe earlier in the day for defiling it with a couple slices of pizza. Well, Matt finished his prayer, placed his cap firmly back on his head and walked away. Once again, the Athey Creek tour avoided an appearance on CNN! :)
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