You are probably all wondering where in the world we have been. we hoped to have to given you all an update last night when we got in, but were exhausted after our trip and had to prepare for our test this morning. here is the brief synopsis of the past three days.
Tuesday we headed off at 7 am for the Elah Valley where david fought goliath. we too collected five smooth stones...ok ours are more like pebbles. we then made our way through a variety of antiquity sites to ashkelon , coastal city on the mediterranean.
wednesday we visited several ancient sites related to the patriarchs including arad, beer-sheeba, beth-guvrin, and hiked through a wadi system (up the wall of a canyon).
thursday was centered around the dead sea. we climbed an ancient fortress of herod, masada. after touring his palace, we ran down the back side of the mountain (literally) called the snake trail. we drove on over to en gedi where we floated in the dead sea a bit before lunch. after eating our fill of hot dogs, we hiked through another wadi and were thrown into a waterfall. the last stop before heading back to jerusalem was the essene community of qumran.
tonight we celebrated with a shabbat meal and are packing for tomorrow's early morning departure to galilee. once again we don't know about our internet connection and will be gone until tuesday night.
we hope to tell tales later of turkish coffee, hiking a variety of wadis, benadryl, feast of first fruits, bill of gath, burial tombs, and gymnastics in the bell caves. we have many stories to tell, but not enough time to type before we leave. hopefully the pictures jenni posts will fill in part of the story.
---emby
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