Bethlehem Meal (Day 5)
(Before I continue, one brief note…if you are a person I might text normally, I have not been able the send or receive texts for the last 24-36 hours. Don’t worry, I’m OK…just can’t see or send texts.) Also, to…
The Sacred Pit/Caiaphas’ House (Day 5)
After lunch, we got a tour of the Caprice Diamond, hmm, headquarters maybe? We got to see a $230,000 5 karat diamond in their showroom. The Jewish people have been in the diamond business for many generations because they have…
The Garden of Gethsemane (Day 5)
This will have to be my last post tonight, I still feel crummy and have to get up in 6.5 hours. As we continue down the triumphal entry road, (dodging the random car here and there) we see on either…
Mount of Olives (Day 5)
So next we walked down from the top of the Mount of Olives along the road of the triumphal entry. Scary road. One car width and STEEP. Let me tell you, the drivers here are crazy and are not afraid…
The Dome of the Rock (Day 5)
In the upper courtyard there are trees and birds and kitties once in awhile too. Evan is becoming known as the cat boy because he pets the kitties wherever we see one. That’s my boy! Cool to see the trees…
Southern Steps (Day 5)
So it is so hard to pick favorites…again, this is up there for me because I did an entire, lengthy Beth Moore Bible study on this next one. We went back out of the Dung Gate, and walked around the…
Western Wall Tunnels (Day 5)
So I redid the Tour Life Day 5 post and added the rest of the Day 5 stuff, so make sure you go back and read that one! : ) We got up very early in the morning to see…
Tour Life (Day 5)
Tonight is our meal with the family in Bethlehem. We won’t get back until around 8:30PM local time. Today we had almost 10.000 steps in before lunch, and I have caught the cough that has been going through the bus.…
The Dead Sea (Day 4)
Our day today ended with a short swim in the Dead Sea. Evan and I both opted to not get all the way in, but got wet up to our knees. The water was cool, but not freezing, and felt…
Qumran (Day 4)
Qumran is where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947 by a shepherd boy who was originally from Bethlehem. Fitting! The scrolls were scriptures on scrolls that were remarkably close to the translations of Bible we already had, but…