Jordan: Day 2.

Tuesday in Jordan was an exciting day. I would say it was the most exciting day and probably the highlight of the trip for everyone. We went to (dun dun dun) .... Petra. (think Indiana Jones)

We woke up pretty early which was a struggle and then after breakfast and packing up and such, we loaded up the buses. Unfortuntely, we had to leave a little late because some boys in our group didn't wake up on time... so that slowed us down a little bit but it didn't put us behind schedule at all... at least I don't think it did. We then drove on over to Petra.

First Mohammed gave us a tour and walked us through it which was cool. It was seriously so impressive.

The Nabataeans lived here and carved these super impressive tombs out of these ROCKS. Insane. Not much is known about them as a people so it's cool to see their work.

Their most well known "building" is called the Treasury... maybe you've seen if from Indiana Jones?

After walking through the Siq, which is a huge slot canyon (and makes you feel like you're in Southern Utah, you reach the Treasury.

With Lottie in Al-Siq.

It was super impressive. It might be a little overrated but it was really cool. We took lots of pictures nonetheless.

With Suzy and Charlotte in front of the Treasury.

Love this picture of Jeff and Adam.

then we meandered through the rest of the park (which by the way is HUGE, I never knew...) and we saw lots of other cool things.

We match the rock formation... get it?

Cool things behind me in the hills. Obvi.

One of my favorite rock formations, a camel (the middle of the picture...)

After lunch, we hiked up to the Monastery which is 800+ steps. And when they say steps, they mean stairs. haha it was exhausting especially since Charlotte and I were following Caleb who was practically running up there. We got to the top and took some pictures and then we hiked to the "View of the End of the World." That was impressive.

With Brielle in front of the Monastery.

Look at that view!

After that, we had to go back to the bus. Which was quite the ordeal. We didn't realize as we were walking in how far we walked... so it took us quite a while to get back to the buses. Oops! Luckily, we weren't the last ones back. But we also stopped to get some much needed ice cream at a little gift shop on the way back. So delicious. And then after that, we drove to Amman. After such a busy and physically exhausting day, a nice loooooong drive was much needed. :)

There was a point on the bus though when I REALLY needed to use the bathroom. And I didn't think that we were going to be stopping. Luckily, right at when we were thinking of stopping (so I hear) Carter feels really car sick and he then passes out in the aisle of the bus. So we stopped! haha he was fine in just a couple minutes though, no worries! :) It was cute though because Caleb, his brother caught him. Sounds familiar...

After the rest of the drive, we got to Amman and after dinner, we got to walk around the city. We headed to Rainbow street and just explore. We found this delicious bakery where they gave us a box of these delicious peanut butter cookies. Amazing. It was definitely a crazy busy but good day. :) Even if our hotel was a little sketchy.