Jerusalem

Jezreel Valley

30 March 2009

I’m a month behind on this good blogging stuff, but I’ll catch up someday. It’s 4 am and I’m in Utah and I’m awake because of extreme jet lag. So I’m using it to my advantage and playing a little catch up.
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Sunday, March 29: Field Trip.
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We started out getting on the bus again at 7:30 am. Kara and Shelby decided to take naps as soon as we got on. I decided to take pictures of Shelby’s open mouth.

Our first stop was Bet She’an or Scythopolis. Roman ruins from back in the day.
walking down the stairs of the theater
Then we went to the bathhouse ruins, where there were all of these little mini Terra Cotta warriors. :) Fun fun.
These explain about the bathhouse. There were three main divisions, hot room, warm room, and cold room. Men would go to these bathhouses to socialize and catch up on the town’s latest. Bathhouses = party central.
community toilet, gotta love it
Moon and Silky Wilky, two of the coolest people ever
We call this Scythopolis.Flowers!
Bugs!
After spending far too long at Bet She’an, we went to Gan Ha-Shelosha! It is this beautiful natural spring or something and we just went there and swam around and it was so fun and so beautiful and I love water.
Then we went to the Church at Nain. Nain is where Christ raised a widow’s child from the dead. The child was all wrapped up and they were carrying out of town or something, and Christ rose the widow’s son from the dead. Miracles.
The floor in the little church was pretty cool.
Back to the bus for some Chelsie Kara Chelsea Kara Chelsea. Yay!
Then we went to Mt. Tabor, where the think the Mount of Transfiguration occurred. This is Shelby. He’s from Eagle River. Yay Alaska!
another beautiful church
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Monday, March 30: We had New Testament on the shores of the Sea of Galilee again. Awesome. Brother Huff is such an excellent teacher. It amazes me how much he knows, talk about a fountain of knowledge. :) And our class is so good, because everyone really knows so much and offer all of their very insightful insights all the time. It puts so many new perspectives on the scriptures.

Today in class, this little ladybug was waiting on my chair for me. We bonded for to first hour and a half of class. She was pretty cool.

Except my poor little lady bug had a crippled wing and couldn’t fly. She’d try and whip her wings out and one of them was only half there. Sad. :( She’d life her bum/body up so that the beautiful red polka dotted part would come up so that her wings could come out. But she couldn’t fly with them. Poor ladybug. But we had fun in class anyway. We had a fun little photoshoot. My camera takes fabulous close up pictures, especially for being just a little ol’ camerea. After class and the party with my ladybug, I found myself here. Back to the beach.

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