Egypt

I'm back from Egypt. Not gonna lie its so nice to be back in Jerusalem. Its so clean here we can eat fresh produce! Cucumbers, tomatoes, salad, mmmm. Anyway I have 8 days of crazy cool experiences to talk about. I probably won't get it all down in this sitting buy here it goes. Day One: January 27th we left the Jerusalem Center at 6:30 am sharp in our two lovely buses and began to drive. We stopped at Tel Beersheba which is a very very old archeological site. Abraham may have lived there. It was so cool to walk on the stairs that are thousands of years old. Basically this whole Egypt trip I couldn't believe how old the stuff was that I was seeing. I was amazed at how much it looked like stuff that we see and use today. Things haven't changed that much (The stuff in the Cairo museum was so old, from tombs of pharoahs but it looked almost like disneyland like that had made all these crafts for effect. But supposedly, they were the real thing. wow!) Anyway back to day one. After the tel we drove more and stopped at the Wilderness of Zin which is basically an overlook of alot of nothing. The greatest most desolate nothing you can imagine. This is the wilderness that the children of Israel wandered in for 40 years. Very harsh land. At this overlook was also the Grave of Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion was basically the George Washington of Israel he was a great leader and in the end refused to take power and went away quietly to farm. After the overlook we stopped at the Yotvata Kibbutz and had a tour. This Kibbutz is known for their dates and dairy cows mostly but they also grow onions and other things. Its amazing how they can do it becuase its such a desolate area. They can't even use sprinklers because the water evaporates to fast in the heat of the summer. Drip Irrigation was invented on this Kibbutz. It only rains about twice a year they said. It was cool because the afternoon we were there it rained! After our tour they served us dinner. Way good food. I especially liked the chocolate milk and ice cream they gave us. Straight from their dairy cows mmm. They had live entertainment during our dinner a group of four singers with one accompanying on the piano. They did alot of Israeli favorites along with some we knew including Fiddler on the Roof "If I were a rich man" and "You ain't never had a friend like me" from Disney's Aladdin. The singing turned into a crazy student dance party after dinner we were all jumping around in circles and singing. It was so fun. After they had settled us down we got back on the buses and drove to Eliot to another Kibbutz where we were to stay the night. I finally went to bed after trying to go swimming in the pool which was closed and not heated (we found this out because two guys jumped in, we forget that it's winter here); playing some night games; and finally going for a short jog in an effort to get some exercise.