Internet time has been pretty scarce, I expected to be able to update more! I can't even begin to explain everything that we've done the last couple of weeks, we have had so much information in such a small amount of time. This last week we have been touring the southern part of Israel. We spent about 15 minutes sitting in the Wilderness of Paran (where the children of Israel wandered for 40 years)... I can maybe see why there would be so much grumbling going on... it was hot! We went snorkeling in the Red Sea and enjoyed seeing the beautiful coral reef there. Yesterday we floated in the Dead Sea, easily one of the weirdest feelings I've ever had. Normal bodies of salt water have 3 or 4 percent salt content, the Dead Sea has something like 28 percent. Looking forward to being back and showing pictures!

Can't believe I'm actually here

I'm in Israel!!

When I go to my page, all of the links are in Hebrew... great fun.

The pope was in Jerusalem today, apparently it's a pretty big deal. I have never seen so many guards with big guns, on roofs, on horses, on the staircase in our hotel, walking down the streets, and there were a bunch of roads blocked off which kept us from being able to go some places. At one place we had to wait to go down a road, not because of the pope but because there was a suspicious bag which they had to check to make sure nothing, um, harmful was in it, they said that happens all the time. We didn't get to see the pope. Waayyy to much to summarize, but it was a good day, it really is amazing to see all of the places you read about in Sripture. I'm pretty excited about the rest of the trip!

We'll see how this goes

I have had enough people ask if I was going to blog during my Israel travels that I decided maybe I should :-) Haven't used any form of this since the xanga days, and I'm not so sure I like it any more now than I did then. Can't make any promises, but I'll try to keep this up... at least for the next 3 weeks!

Just finishing packing up, we fly out 4:20pm on Sunday!