Eliezer's Bookstore

I'm beginning this post at 1:15 am, having just come back from a weekend in Jerusalem.  I don't have enough time to describe that now, so for now, I'm just going to tell an amusing story from last week.
Although I have a copy of my own Tanakh at home, which I received at my Bar Mitzvah, it was too large and heavy for me to take with me on the trip; furthermore, it's English-only, and although the translation is excellent (JPS), and I've decided that I really need a parallel Hebrew-English edition.
So, I asked my friend Yosi where I could find a Judaica bookstore with books in English.  He directed me to Yerushalmi Street, and after some wandering, including into a visit to the wrong shop where I found a really excellent gift for someone back home (for only four shekels!), I made my way to Eliezer's Bookstore.  It's run by a man only a few years older than me, along with his father.  When I walked in (the store was only about the size of my family's living room, minus the piano), the former asked me if I had come to pick up a book on reserve.  I hadn't, and asked for some help looking for a Hebrew-English Tanakh.  The store was too small to have anything more than the Artscroll Stone Edition, which you can pretty much find anywhere.  Unfortunately, there were no pocket-sized editions, only the large hardcover version.  It turned out, however, that the book on reserve was a paperback Stone Edition!  It was the only copy, though, and the man told his father they needed to order more copies, and told me that if the book hadn't been picked up by 2:00 pm that afternoon, I was free to buy it.  Willing to wait a few hours, I walked back to the dormitory.  I did, however, buy a few postcards, which I hope will arrive back in the U.S. over the next couple of weeks.
Adam and Ben had come back from buying fruit and bread in the market, and when I walked into the kitchen, they asked me if I had picked up the book at bookstore. It turns out that Adam had actually found Eliezer's Bookstore first, and, knowing that I was searching for a Hebrew-English Tanakh, he had reserved the only pocket edition in the store for me!  So the book on reserve had been for me all along!  I ran back to the store, bought the book, laughingly explained the whole chain of events to the father, and headed off to class.
OK, expect information about Jerusalem and Jericho the next time I update!

~JD