I am excited because I am going back to Christmas, back to my family and helping my best friend plan her wedding, and helping my sister decorate her new house (maybe), and back to school and friends that I have missed deeply. But, of course, I am still me, and I think that I will always be desiring more out of the world. I have had such amazing experiences thus far, that I can't imagine just being still. Seriously, I have created a family in Geneva, Milan, Jerusalem, Stare Splavy (Czech Republic), and I have friends freckled all over the world. I have been extremely blessed, and it's amazing to be in this position- to feel at home in so many places is unreal. And it just reminds me that wherever the Lord is, I can make my home with Him.
Speaking of my family here in Jerusalem, I had the BEST day yesterday! I have been wanting to explore more the Israel, and FINALLY I got to! We set out early in the morning from the Hill's house and headed to Masada: one of Herod the Great's creations. It is a city built on the top of a mountain, overlooking the dead sea. It is a engineering masterpiece, and has a crazy history of zealots living up there and being attacked by the Romans 1st Century AD. Apparently when the Romans finally finished their siege ramp, all of the Jewish zealots had killed themselves rather than be killed or go into slavery. From there we were headed to En Gedi, but the girl who drove my car knew how much I wanted to go in the Dead Sea, so she made a quick stop and me and my friend John ran down to the water so he could document my swim. I love stuff like that- changing in the car and then busting out and running at a stop on the side of the road. Unfortunately, when we got back, the other car had come back and told us the En Gedi was closed because of fear of flash flooding. I didn't really know what I was missing, so I didn't really mind (plus I had just swam in the Dead Sea! So, I was happy).
The other car decided to head home, but my car went on the Jericho. On the way, Emily pulled a U-turn when we passed a camel b/c she knew I wanted to ride on one (she's so great!). So I got to experience a camel ride! My camel's name was Charlie, but I didn't think that was very fitting, so I named him Sir Charles and pretended I was a princess waving to my adoring public. From there, we went to Jericho to see Zacchaeus' tree (Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he... you know), and the remains of the first ever city, and a coptic church where Zacchaeus' bones are (supposedly), and then we had some mint tea and pizza at a great little restaurant.
All in all, like I said, a GREAT day! And I slept SO well last night b/c of all my adventures. I always love a great night's sleep after a long adventurous day. How cool is it that I have made friends here and gotten to go on a fun little road trip with them around Israel? I love life sometimes.
Right, that's all for now. Have a great day!
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