Palm Sunday Walk begins! It was quite the crowd!
With Kenzi, Victoria, Brooke, Marie, Becca on Palm Sunday
Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, each of the denominations took their turns celebrating Palm Sunday
Mosaic inside the Holy Sepulcher
Latin priest doin' his thing
At 5 AM on Easter Sunday we all walked down to the Garden Tomb to celebrate Easter with the Evangelists. It was a great way to celebrate Our Risen Savior who conquer death. It was so much fun singing upbeat songs, "Praise the Lord!"
Just hanging out on Easter: Bonnie, Britt, Sam!!, Natalie, Kelsea, and Aaron
Touching the rock of Golgotha at the church of the Holy Sepulchre
The Tomb at the Holy Sepulchre
Russian Orthodox Church of Ascension "gold onion church"
Natalie thinks she's so tough :) I am tough!
ready JUMP! at the Herodian
Shepherds Field where we had a nice Christmas program, Natalie accompanied a group on her flute, so good!
"What? you want me to yell...
So I yelled...
Oh you want me to yell to hear the echo. :) haha
Did you know that you float in the Dead Sea? It's true, we have no floaty with us. It was the most bizarre experience, can't even describe, it was nuts! Super salty, don't get in eyes...whoops it burns like crazy!
We found some black mud and decided to cover ourselves in it now we have super soft skin!
Brooke Loves her Mentos! okay clarification- this was the first time i bought mentos and you could get 3 or 4 if you're lucky for only a shekel!
umm...hey guys...I think we found the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran
The Dome of the Rock
Mt. Nebo, where Moses looked on the Promised land, looks real promising huh?
Kelsea, Natalie and Brooke at Mt. Nebo
Commemoration of Moses and the Children of Israel at Nebo
Madaba, Holy Map done by Helena, mother of Constantine
There Jerusalem on the map, bottom right featuring the cardo.
We love exploring Castles! (Nimrod's castle)
The Beginning of PETRA!
Natalie, Brooke and Kelsea
The first glimpse of the Treasury
Holy Freak! Look Where We Are!
King's Tombs
The Monastry
We found the view of the End of the World
And it really was the end of the World...
It was so high! Mom you would have passed out for sure! don't worry I was very careful!
Conquered it!
Natalie gettin' artsy :)
Jerash- Best preserved Roman City in the Middle East! It was incredible! I was having a field day!!! Loved all the remains of everything I have studied in Humanities! (Brooke, not Natalie. Unfortunately I was not as ammused by the colums as she was. Sorry, that's why I'm not a humanities major)
Theater
Hercules and Zeus
Roman military formation
...we had to jump
We got to pose with the Chariot Rider! Ben Hur style!
Meet Brooke's gladiator
Jabbok River Overlook (where Esau and Jacob were reunited)
King Abdullah's Mosque
Harry Potter? Dementors? Conservative Muslims?
At Citadel overlooking Amman, capital of Jordan
Greek Orthodox Church near the Jordan River
Bethabara, "the real" Baptismal site of Jesus
And while we were standing on the Jordanian side we could see across the Jordan river to Beloved Israel.
