Well, last night there was another party…this time at least they spoke English. I wasn’t going to have it. I actually tried talking to them, but they ignored my request. So I called the lady in charge of our group and she went out and told them to go away, and they did. Funny thing is I had some guys move all the tables that were in front of my room…and the group brought them all back over!! I don’t know why that spot is so special..At least we stopped them at 12:30am rather then 4:00am so I managed to get more sleep last night. Which was good because we started off today with a nice long hike in the mountains…on not very sturdy ground…
Gamla was where we went first and oh man…they warned us about a strenuous hike…but I still wasn’t ready. The thing that was hard was that we started off going DOWN, so they entire time going down all I could think about was that eventually I was going to have to go back up. And the bummer thing was all we saw down at the bottom of this giant hill was more ruins…which I have seen enough of. Oh and stupid me left my memory card in my computer last night so I have no pictures from today. I stole some pictures from my roomie for ya'all :)
The view from the top.
This kind of gives you the idea of what we had to hike down...but i feel like it looks a lot worse then this picture shows..This must be towards the top.
Our final destination at the bottom of the giant hill.
Next I think was Katnis, it was a cute little town. The people had set it up to make it look just like towns would’ve looked back then. I liked this place because it was something new. We got to go inside models of different houses and see a synagogue and all that stuff, a lot of it was in the shade to which was nice.
An outside of some random building haha.
The kitchen
Climbing up into the bed room!
All of us sitting inside a synagogue.
After this it was LUNCH TIME! I always love lunch time…we all finally get a break from all the walking. Today the hotel didn’t have any breakfast stuff that worked to pack for lunch so I had to buy lunch. We stopped in a little town. The first place I went to kind of just ignored me…it was like a falafel/schwarma place but it was like Subway where you tell them what you want on it…and they didn’t understand that all I wanted was the chicken! So I got really frustrated and left. But luckily I found a pizza place that gave us one largish piece of pizza for 10 sheckels! Which is a great deal! Then to add to that we found a place that sold popsicles for 2 sheckles!! 2 sheckles is less then a dollar! We are all so excited and they were super tasty. It totally made my day.
Then we went to Susita. It was another place that had a little it of a walk…and it was the hottest part of the day…and there was minimal shade. It was slightly miserable…I guess I should be happy I am getting some exercise though. It was another city of ruins, so it was pretty much just like everything else we had seen. Apparently though we could see the cliff that Jesus sent the demon-possessed pigs running down. Which was cool, finally something to connect to Jesus again.
The "view" from the beginning of the trek.
My eyes have become trained to find shade ;) My legs look awkwardly long in this picture
Yay for more walking...
We ended at Ein Gev and a tiny little museum. I expected the museum to be something that we walked through but it was a room that we sat in that had stuff all over the walls. Then the curator talked to us for about 20 minutes. I guess it was interesting. Did all of you know that fisherman in Jesus time fished naked? Haha. That was an interesting fact to me. :) It looks like Sarah didn't take any pictures of this though sorry!
Now we are back at the hotel and it is about time for dinner! I’m very happy to that now my blog is all caught up!! Hopefully now I can just post once every day and have it be a post from the exact day.
-Wendi
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