1) Little fridges aren't very exciting to watch (Anabelle insisted that I join her in it...)
2) If you ever are having a great deep and lengthy conversation in the car with your spouse, stop immediately, because something is seriously wrong with that picture! When we hit that point, I turned around and saw this:
After a few wet-wipes and half a day of running around...3) The Nimrod Fortress doesn't really have nimrods in it. It's a cool fortress, but Anabelle was disappointed that there weren't any nimrod princesses there.
#2 enjoyed the fortress too... as far as we could tell...4) Mosquitos like old crusader-era cisterns.
5) Even though Cesarea Philippi was a pagan city where human sacrifices were done to the god Pan, it is considered special in the Christian world since near it Christ asked his disciples what he thought of him. I thought it was cool because a nice-sized river suddenly appears at the base of a rocky cliff a few feet above where this picture was taken... (think... living waters gushing forth from a rock...)
6) Lizards are cool... espcially when running around on a really old basalt synagogue at Chorazin.
7) Like what happened to Jesus there, almost nobody in Chorazin listened to Anabelle as she preached at the Basalt Synagogue... though maybe it was because we were the only ones there.
8) Jesus was baptized in this river... but Anabelle has to wait until she's bigger.
9) Ostriches can deliver a kick up to 500 pounds per square inch. Don't worry... we didn't learn this through experience... we read it on a sign on the ostrich farm door.
10) There are now churches where ~all significant New Testament stories took place... this is the Mount of the Beatitudes church (see Matthew 5).
11) Peter lived under a big church... The shade must have been really nice during those hot Galilean summers.
He also lived down the street from this big, white synagogue... no wonder he was so religious (not really... it's a 4th or 5th century synagogue, though the are remains of an older one under it).
12) Israeli cars can't go into Jericho.
13) Since it happened here, it's ok to throw rocks, because one might fly into a cave and break an old jar, thereby leading to the discovery of lots of old scriptures... (Dead Sea scrolls at Qumran).
14) I was surprised to see a sign pointing me to my parents' house, but they weren't home... in fact,despite the sign, I couldn't find St. George...
At least there was a cool monastery down that road in Wadi Qelt.
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Wow!! Love Annabelle's body are! :) I wish we could come and visit you guys. It's amazing all that you are seeing!
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