Traveling to Egypt...

These are a few of the Pictures of our 2 day travel to Egypt! Sorry they are backwards in order of how they happened, even though you wouldn't know that....

Anyway, we left the JC(Jerusalem Center) at 5 in the morning and began our travels to Egypt. We took many many breaks and we went on a lot of small fieldtrips in between. It was really nice cause we would ride for about an hour then we would get out some significant place and wander around and look at it. It was nice easy travel and I never really did get tired. I did though right when we left the JC took pictures of everyone sleeping on the bus. It was hlarious because that was the first time I have ever riden a bus here when it's quiet.

In backwards order...Here is the last place that we visited and stayed the night on the first day of travels. It's called a Kaboose where a group of Jewish people have gathered and live together. Their main source of money is their cows milk that they send all over the world. It's just a community of 300 people and they all have different jobs and the same salaries. They all work for the common good of the community and it works out really well. It reminded me of a minature Zion really. We had a person from the community take us around their entire place and inform us about what they all do. It really was a nice simple way of life. Not much worries there...



The place kaboose that we went to is actually pretty famous. They invented the drip line here!! Pretty cool, huh!! The Food really was great there, and they were very kind to us. I even drank some of their famous Chocholate MILK and it was pretty good!










These are ruins that we went to on our way to Egypt. They were very cool to see. There were some caves that we could discover and climb through. It was quite the adventure!! This place helped to protect caravans coming through the valley along the spice road. It had been a little vandalized by the Bedowin, who are nomads and roam the countryside, because the state of Isreal won't recognize some of theirs settlements and help them to build roads, school, and water. It is quite a problem and to retaliate they came to these sacred ruins and knocked down many pillars.
It is crazy to not only understand the ancient history of this land but the modern. It can get very complicated!














This is a great look out point into the Judean Wilderness. Also this is the grave site of the First President and his wife. People put rocks on their graves to show respect and reverence, also because they're not too many flowers around here. I have other pictures of this Judean wilderness that show the valley where the children of Isreal would have walked through.















This is a picture of the Judean wilderness again but here is a hugenormous rift that has created a great valley. The children of Israel would have walked here too. After coming to all these places of desolant desert I have much more sympathy for the children of Israel. I think I would have complained a little bit too... 40 years in this desert would have been quite a trial for me.


















While we were there we had to have a little nativity moment with this perfect spot.
Do I look a little sheepish? baaa...

Beware of danger! Hard hat required!!
















We are in a tel of Beersheba. It was a cool place. Oh, I remember...here is where Abraham, Jacob, and Isaac all lived. When Joesph had been sold into egypt this the place that Jacob was living. There was also a famous well here with the first water system in the area. It had rained super hard the day before and everything was flooded so we couldn't go inside and see.












A picture of Jerico tel. One of the oldest cities in the entire world!!















This is the tree of Zacharias who was of small stature and climbed up the tree to see Jesus traveling through town.















At Jerico they have uncovered parts of the old city. This tower, which is now 100 feet under the actual ground, is the oldest building in the world! Crazy eh!