Galilee: Part 4.

Sunday (11/20):

Field trip day! On this day, we started out the day by going to Mt. Tabor which is a possible sight of the transfiguration. It was super handy because I brought along my personal photographer/husband so we got lots of good pictures, without having to ask someone to take them! :) We also got lots of creepy pictures of people but we won't go into that...

We went inside the little church up there and had a little discussion outside (where it was a little chilly) and we got to look out and see the world. It was cool.

Outside the church with Alyse, Charlotte and Taylor.

Look at that view. haha with Lottie. :)

The scariest part was getting driven up the mountain. They run a little shuttle service up and down the mountain and the drivers are insane. I was scared for my life. On the way down, it was Josh, Brother Huntsman and I in the van along with like 8 people from Algeria and it was fun because they were like in love with us. haha And we were all scared for our lives. Definitely forms a good bond.

Charlotte liked this artsy shot of this long road... so we played along...

Do we need to learn how to take jumping pictures together?....

....yes we do. :/

Following Mt. Tabor, we headed to Nain, which is the city where Christ raises a widow's son. We went inside the tiny church there and had a really good devotional and then we took some pictures and headed on our way.

This would be Carter, Maddy, Me, Suzy, and Desiree in front of the mosque across from the church we went inside... haha

Next stop: Megiddo!

We first looked at an overview of the site, in diagram form (obviously after looking through the giftshop...) and then we went outside and explored. We had way too much fun here. Throwing rocks, posing with horses, taking jumping pictures, etc. It was a fun site. Mostly because they just let us play. We also walked through the ancient water system which was... unusually similar to the other 15 we've seen. Crazy how that works. And it was especially handy having my photographer around. Not so handy that three people were fighting over the camera all day. I'm pretty sure I personally only took 5 pictures... of the 300+ that were taken.

Typical Gift Shop Picture. (We're a match made in heaven).

Cute first picture; AnnaLeah, Me, Charlotte, Taylor, and Maddy...

...Super great fourth picture.

AnnaLeah, Charlotte, Me and Josh. Such a cute picture. :)

Jumping Picture: Me, Desiree, Sarah, Suzy, AnnaLeah, Robin.

(p.s. I'm basically a pro...)

Shoe picture! With the horse!

Yay for horses. These random horse statues were all over Megiddo...

Monday (11/21):

Monday was our last day of classes, in Galilee. Which was fun. We had two hours of class and then we had an hour and a little bit of midterm. Although we did have a nice 3 hour break between the two. But the midterm wasn't all that bad except for it consumed our lives and ate up our beach play time.

After the midterm, we did get to play (and swim!) in the lake/sea. That was fun. It was a little bit cold and I need to get some pictures from some people but it was great. :)

Mediterranean Sea- Check.

Red Sea- Check.

Sea of Galilee- Check.

Dead Sea- COMING SOON.

We then just hung out and did whatever until dinner and then after dinner we had a lecture about Kibbutz Life which was super interesting. It was a little long and we were all exhausted but it was good. We learned a lot (and maybe a lot more than we wanted to know... haha)

And then we were supposed to have a bonfire (or firebon as they call it...) but it got postponed to Tuesday night. So we just... hung out and did whatever. Aka went to bed early. :)