The Galilee (Part 1)

Well, here it is . . .

The event you've all been waiting for!!!

The GALILEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm going to do a Day by Day run through of what happened on our super great adventure!!!

July 11 (Mon)- After getting packed last night, we got up super early and left on our trip to Galilee. We left at about 6:30, so needless to say, I don't remember the journey much.
We stopped at an Ancient Roman City named Bet She'an. They have all their old Roman cities as National Parks which is rather odd. Our next stops were the Nazareth Village, the Church of the Synagogue, and the Church of the Annunciation. Nazareth Village was a little village/visitor's center place that they had in Nazareth to try to give people a feel for how exactly Nazareth was. They had weaving, and wine-making, and a fake little tomb, and sheep, and lots of things like that. We went to a cliff top on the west side of the Sea of Galilee, that conveniently I can't remember the name of. I was really awe-struck to see all the area of where the Savior walked and performed his ministry. Then we drove around to Ein Gev. It is the little resort town where we stayed for our 11 day journey.
Ein Gev (pronounced 'En Gev') is a super great place. The resort we stayed at was right on the beach. It was really neat. It was basically like dozens and dozens of little 3 room, 1 story apartments scattered around the grass on the hill above the beach. Kinda reminded me of San Diego. I was in apartment 133. Scott Rowley, Drew Pearson, and Jarrette Lever were my room-mates. Thankfully in Galilee we got internet.

July 12 (Tues)- We have a restaurant in the main building where we have all our meals, buffet style (pronounced buff-et). Breakfast was superlicious. We went swimming this afternoon. A bunch of us from the classes strove our hardest to be as dangerous as possible. We succeeded in making 3 person tall pyramids. After making very dangerous human towers that could only be rivaled in their stupidity by the Tower of Babel, we did backflips off of each other. We had a fun FHE campfire fire-bon thing tonight. Jarrette is the man and does a whole bunch of fun camp songs.

July 13 (Wed)- Today was a great field-trip day with one glitch. I lost my camera. Thankfully it was about 5 years old, and thankfully everyone has their pictures on the computers at the center that I can get, so I can find all the pictures I lost and more. My room-mate is letting me borrow his old one for the duration of the study abroad, so hopefully I can just get a new one when I get home.
Well on our trip we took a boat across the Galilee. We saw a museum about an old boat that they unearthed at the Sea of Galilee. Then we went to the Church of the Beatitudes, where I lost my camera. I know exactly the 3 possible spots I lost it, but when I went back with several class-mates and faculty members, I couldn't find it. So that's a bummer in the unfortunately area of the miserable spectrum. We also went to Capernaum and saw Peter's house. We visited Tabgha. We also visited Church of St. PEter's Primary. And Bethsaida (very short stop down by the Sea.)
We finished off the day by having a general gospel discussion at the Muhlstein's who happens to be the best teacher in the world. It was really good.

July 14th (Thurs)- We had class today. We went on a fun hike today with a local tour guide. I couldn't remember his name, but he asked us a lot of riddles that were nifty. We had dinner at a fish restaurant in Tiberius.

July 15th (Fri)- We went on a Field Trip to Gamla and hiked a lot as we saw the old ruins of houses and a synagogue and where they had battles. We also visited a placed called Kursi which was by where the Savior cast out the Devils into the swine and they ran into the Sea. Chadwick's class this evening.

July 16th (Sat)- Breakfast. Then Church which was in Tiberius in the little chapel which had a great overlook of the Sea. It was a testimony meeting. We visited a local baptistry. We had a devotional tonght back at Ein Gev. It is so great to learn about all of these various things that happened in the Savior's life. They are so neat. Especially to see them where they happened.

July 17th (Sun)- Class for 3 hours and the rest of the day was a free-day. When I say class, it means New Testament. Which is great thanks to the Muhlstein's who are the best family ever, save mine.