We went to the Russian Church of Ascension (the one with the golden onion spires). It is part of a convent dedicated to Mary Magdelene, and it was really beautiful.
These cool green rose flowers outside the church. I didn't know there was such things as green roses, and they weren't the exact same, but they kind of look like them. I want this as one of my wedding flowers I think.
The church (although you can't see the onion spires very well, this really is one of the most beautiful churches on the Mount of Olives).
Me and Jessica at this delicious waffle place. Oh my goodness, I don't think I have even cleaned a plate at a restaurant that fast before. Ever.
We went to the Red Sea. I was actually kind of 1/2 in charge here so there were moments of uh oh. Like when we realized we forgot the medical kit. So I when I was making the announcements of where to go, and where to get the snorkel stuff and such I told everyone to not get hurt, and luckily nobody got hurt. There were a couple poor souls that got a little bus sick though. Haha, it was a grand adventure. The sea was super salty, the sun was super hot, the sunscreen was applied super liberally, and the coral was spectacular. Truly a day for the books.
This super cool building on the beach. It is so . . . Israel. An odd combination of antiquity and modernity. Yup, definitely Israel.
THE BEACH!!!! And for all of those that thought the Red Sea was red, it is not.
The wonderful ladies I have got to be in Jerusalem with . . . .
(From R to L . . . me, Valerie, Allie, Grace, Jenna, Margret, Gabby)
I love them so much. Also, we had all the girls in this pic which means that all the boys were taking the picture, and it was funny because I don't think they had realized that under all the long cargo pants and baggy shirts, we actually are women!
We went to the Lights of Jerusalem tour. Basically once a year they do this big festival where they light up parts of the Old City. It is a super cool thing, and it was kind of funny to see the Old City look so modern and all lit up at night.
This is the Christian Quarter Information Building, and it was completely lit up by protectors, and the birds moved tweeted and stuff. It was soooo cool.
This was just pretty. The picture doesn't do it justice.
Me and my friends all talked in crocidille hunter accents as we passed these elephants on the wall.
This was my favorite exhibit. It was a house of cards.
And each card had a king or queen from the Bible.
This exhibit is exactly what I would imagine real life tangled is like.
Us by the house of cards. I love all of these people. They are just the greatest.
There was this tree of lightbulbs with little chains attached, and when you pulled on the chain you turned on the lights on part of the tree.
This was the starting point for the walk. It was super tall and absolutely stunning. From this point there were four different colors of lights that lead around the city to the different exhibits. It reminded me of the string mazes my family does for Valentines Day.
We went to a garden nature reserve. They have all of the animal and plants mentioned in the Bible at this place. We got to grind our own hyssop (my new favorite herb—I eat it dried with pita and a little olive oil all the time). There also was a well that I drew water out of. I guess that makes me a woman at the well. Come at me righteous servants coming on behalf of rich Canaanite lords with future covenant bearing sons . . . .
We got to herd sheep!! And lets just say, there is a reason why Christ is the shepard and we are the sheep. Being a shepard is king of tough.
We got to make our own Biblical lunch (we made lentil soup and popped wheat and pitas) at a campsite in the reserve. The funny thing was that there were two groups for our class, and the boys making the soup on one side wanted our professor to say that their soup was better. So they got two cups and had the professor taste both to decide if the Brad/Josh/Alex soup was better than the Jessica/Liza/girls soup. But theirs (which he tasted first) was SUPER hot, so Bro Belnap burned his tongue and kind of default chose ours because he couldn't taste either and ours didn't burn his tongue. The boys were soooo mad, and we were laughing pretty hard. Also to note, Ben Lehnardt dumped water on Chelsea Clayton, and she was all miffed. Me, being very experienced in the ways of water wars, was done cleaning my big metal bowl so I beckoned her over and told her to go dump it on him. She at first was hesitant, but then Jason (who is like 6'5) said to just casually walk behind him, and so when Ben turned his back to work on putting the fire out, she causally walked over behind Jason and dumped it on Ben's back. We were all dying laughing. So I wasn't PART of the water fight, but, like a true Jarman, I kind of instigated a awesome water payback.
So the guy in the green is Dax Levine. Which means that he is a Levite = Jewish priest lineage. So when the man at Neom Keumin (the nature reserve) was showing us the Torah Dax got to wear the special breastplate of the Levite priests. Awesome, right!?
This is me . . . and what I did AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL week. I had 5 finals, and one paper. Ya, it was rough. But now I am ddddooonnneee and the rest of the semester is super easy. I will only have 2 classes!! I am super exited. Also because now we are starting the New Testament, and I love reading the 4 gospels.
Other random pics I haven't posted yet . . . .
This is Teresa Greenwood, me Charlotte Ray (isn't that the cutest name!! and she's even from GA), and Sarah LeChminant.
Me at the Zoo . . . this was actually the day I got my mission call.
Me and some of my friends at some cave. I think this was on the shephelah field trip . . .
On other news, I made it into the nursing program at BYU! Yay! I found out the day after finals, so it was a great surprise to end my finals week!
Adios for now, and wish me luck in Petra, because I'm gonna be in Jordan next week (and I WILL GET TO RIDE A CAMEL . . . . Yippee!!!)
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