Jerusalem!

hello friends and family...After a couple days of low to none internetconnection we are back in Jerusalem for the final days of our trip.It's saturday night at 9 pm and a bunch of us are at a coffee housecatching up on emails and internet stuff like that. I hope to get somephotos from some cameras to post pictures of the last couple ofdays...The highlights since the last post, which was Wednesay night,with pictures from tuesday...Thursday we headed north to the Golanheights to see some antiquities...Tel dan (a tel is a hill that ismade from dirt and debris collecting around old ruins. you can tellthe difference between a regulat hill and a tel because a tel will bepretty sheer on its sides and a low in no amount of foliage, but Idigress) At tel dan is a 4000 year old canaanite archway and gate,which they say Abraham could have walked thru at some point in hisjourney to the holy land, how crazy is that, Abraham! Also Caesareaphilippi and then a dinner cruise on a boat on the sea of galilee, agreat way to end our time in the Galilee region. Friday we headed downto bet sha'ian (sp.) and to gideon springs (read judges 7) and finallydown to the Dead Sea where we floated in the salty water. I have alittle vial of the water for people to taste, it's pretty gross.saturday we headed to en-gev where David wrote some of the Psalms andhad one of his encounters with Saul when he was pursuing him (1 samuel24 i believe). We then made our way to Jerusalem where we are now,making a brief stop at the mt. of olives overlooking the old city.tomorrow we hit the town to see the holy sites and the craziness that will be Jerusalem. Until next time...