All is well here! I am having a bit of a time keeping this updated. Internet here...internet there! No time here...ha ha!
It's wonderful!
I am extremely fortunate and blessed to have this opportunity! Every host group has done so much for our teams!
We have covered a lot of tracks during the last 6 days!
I am going to summarize, hopefully quickly...this way I can get up to speed! Bare with me...it could be a long one....and or random one depending on time...gonna update as I can!
Day 2 in Nahariya has been my favorite so far...We visited the Baha'i Temple. I have heard about the Baha'i Faith, but never really had it explained. I will say one thing about this and my experience here....I LOVED IT! The gardens were absolutely beautiful. RED Geraniums for miles. The hedges were 12 + feet tall, and the "yard boys" were there trimming and tending to the garden the day we were there. I video taped the guys trimming so I could show the Krause Boys that hedges can get this tall, and that they can be trimmed straight! Ha!
The Bab Shrine was breath taking...the whole place was incredible. I look forward to learning more about the Baha'i Faith. We are in Carmel today and on Wednesday we will be visiting the Baha'i World Center on Wednesday....can't wait will report back.
****I am attaching links so you can read about each place, and better understand it. I am still collecting my thoughts, and I am afraid I will scatter them about if I try to explain them right now. We have just been so many places and seen so many things our days are starting to jumble together. *****
Our next stop was at a Kibbutz where they focused on Biotechnology. They clone plants to rid diseases in fruit crops. It was super cool they explained the whole process. This Kibbutz sets just
30 km below the mountain from the Lebanon boarder, and when Lebanon was bombing into the area the bombs would miss the Kibbutz because they were so close the the mountain. The lady that gave the tour explained to us how she knew if they hit close or far away because of how they sounded when they hit the ground....can you imagine...this was only a few years ago!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_HaNikra_(kibbutz)
Then off to Rosh Hanikra the northern tip of the Israeli coast. The view was amazing... you could see out into the Mediterranean for miles. The cave was man made on the border between Lebanon and Israel for train tracks. During the 1948 Israeli/Arab war the Israelis blew up the inside of the tunnel the train went through. Now it's a national park with caves and a visitors station. You have to ride a cable car to the bottom...We watched a short video on the history on now what the call the "train ride to peace," and then made our way through the caves.
Nahariya
Holocaust Museum, we only got to spend an hour and a half here so we didn't get to soak it all in. The only exhibit we saw was about the children. It probably was ok that we didn't spend too long here. It was getting to be an emotional visit for some of us.
Old and New Acre (Akko) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel Akko is crazy it is cities built upon cities...Over the centuries Akko has belonged to the Greeks, Egyptians, Crusaders, Arabs, Turks and BritishThere is an underground Crusader city. We went through the underground tunnels which used to be the sewer. It's all dried up and clean now! Ha! We toured both the Old and New Akko got the full treatment; we even got to go to a few areas off the beaten path. Lunch was wonderful! Falaful! I did a bit of shopping and bought a tile that said "Shalom Ya'll" it's pretty perfect!
The National Water Carrier (they had to check our passport numbers for this visit)
A little bit of rest!!!
Israel Valley
Beit She'an Valley
Kibbutz Sde Eliyahou...I think this Kibbutz convinced me that if I lived in Israel..it would be on a Kibbutz...
Swimming in the Gan Hashlosaha lake...a natural lake..
Nazareth Elite
Sacred Christian sites...including the Synagoge where Jesus told stories, the leaping mountain where it is thought that he jumped from.
The site where the Pope recently gave Mass.
Sabbath...day of rest...
****Baptised myself in the Jordan River...WOW WOW WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWWW!!!****
Karmiel
Paul Harris Forest
Sea of Galilee!!!!
Church of Beatiudes where Jesus preached the Beatiudes..
12 Apostle Orthodox Church- Gorgeous!
Bedouin Tent
Haifa Cluster
Tefen Industrial site- Where they make Scan Disk...
Please stay posted...as I said I will explain more about each visit as I get time..
Have had awesome host families...and we have all been well fed!
Love to all!
Katt
La Heim (to life)
Read also. John Kanelis' blog on Amarillo.com. He posts on the net everyday, and has a colomn in the paper and on the net every Sunday.
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