Our day consisted of many many green fields such as this one at Beth Shemesh. It's really neat because at all of these sites that we go to there is some Biblical reference to them as well. So Beth Shemesh is found in 1 Samuel 5 where it talks about the Philistines marching the Ark of the Covenant back up to Israelites to Beth Shemesh.
A bunch of the girls in our group. The fields are so pretty this time of year because the rains have just come and now all the wild flowers are growing up.
Lachish: once again a Biblical spot. 2 Chronicles 32. I decided that since it was Brooke's 20th Birthday she had lived long enough and needed to be sacrificed. Luckily some people were nice enough to step in and stop me :)
A National Park. The Bell Caves. This place was SO freakin cool!!! First off, the park was just all these green rolling hills that reminded me of home and the flowers were so pretty and then there were all these caves, like the one above and below. They are these huge cut outs in the wall. And when I say huge I mean huge. But there are tons of these and the ancient people would dig them out for water. Its the sweetest thing ever!
Underground wine press.
Oh course we had to get a jumping picture in somewhere.
At one point in the day we stopped at the Valley of Elah, where David took on Goliath. We thought it only appropriate to react the epic scene, except for the part where Goliath dies because then I wouldn't be here anymore. (And side note, using a sling is much harder than it looks.)
The Micah Caves: Now these were sweet! Let us give you a tour of the caves. Follow me....
Welcome to the really small tunnel that you must crawl through to get to the big cave. You must crawl on your hands and knees at all times! Army Crawl!
Shall we proceed...it looks bigger than it really is...don't let it trick you.
At the end of the tunnel you will have to turn around and come through a small hole and come down this very rikety ladder which leads to the big cave.
Holy Freak! We're Splunking!
Inside the cave are many little tiny tunnels that you can climb through. At some points you literally had to army crawl through these holes. At one point I had to psych myself up to make it through because the walls were right there and my body was worming through these holes and they kept on getting smaller and smaller! Pretty intense.
Back at the National Park. This is an underground room where they kept doves for sacrifices.Only appropriate to pretend to be doves.
Azekah, overlooking the Valley of Elah. We hope you have enjoyed our day, Brooke's birthday.
That's all for now! :)
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