Light Festival part 2 and transportation woes

We went to Jerusalem in the early afternoon. Pat wanted to see the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and I promised that I could get her to its front door,  but then I would be useless.  We did, indeed, find it easily, but it's a really big place and it seemed that all the visitors were in tour groups.  As luck would have it, an employee of the church, Anton, asked if he could show us around. He's Russian Orthodox, and perfectly charming (I'll post a photo later).  It was great - we never would have found our way to the Byzantine alcove 60 m below the street, or up to the Catholic chapel (which Pat wanted to go find).  Damn treacherous stone steps, but slow worked.

Then we tried to take the light rail, but there were protests blocking it, so we changed our dinner plan.  We went to the Light Festival around sunset (early), and got on the blue line ahead of the crowds.   I don't have photos to share right now (later), but our favorite exhibit was this: http://www.lightinjerusalem.org.il/index.php?dir=site&page=arts&op=item&cs=607  These mirrored costumes were AMAZING.

The light rail did, in fact, get us back to the bus station, where there were....fireworks!  I don't know why.  But there were hundreds of people waiting in the bus station because the buses couldn't get through the protests. We luckily got on the second bus to Tel Aviv (had to get back because her flight was in the morning). Pushing and shoving was the order of the moment. And we were able to get a local bus, too.