[Petra]
This weekend I got to go to one of the New Seven Wonders of the World!!!! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/07/09/etsevenwonders109.xml). A group of seven of us took a bus down to Eilat, the southernmost point in Israel touching the Red Sea. (http://www.inisrael.com/tour/eilat/index.html). We spent the night there, then got up and went to PETRA!! It was so much fun! We hiked, saw the Treasury (where Indiana Jones was in "The Last Crusade"), rode horses AND I got to ride a camel!!!
In front of the Treasury!
Obviously, me on a camel!
The next day, we got up and went snorkeling in the Red Sea before our bus trip home! All in all, it was a really fun weekend!
Yesterday was a class field trip to the Old City of Jerusalem. It's so amazing to be able to go and see places that are mentioned 3000 years ago.... We went through Hezekiah's Tunnel, an active archaeological dig, saw this huge model of the city in Jesus' day AND saw the Dead Sea Scrolls....
I'm having so much fun here! I don't want to have to leave at the end of the month :-(