no-picture-day

Today was a day for no pictures.... for two reasons actually. One is I ran out of film and every store except for one only carries 200 speed, which I usually shoot with 400. Two is because it might have been a waste of a day. :-/ We left at 8 and drove 3 hours to Beer Sheva (which is the southern most point that the Bible speaks of about Israel) to see a crater. This crater looked like the rest of the desert, and I'm not too thrilled with holes in the ground as it is. I've never really had a desire to see the Grand Canyon either... guess it's just not my thing. We stayed for about 20 minutes, got back on the bus and drove an hour back the other way and stopped by the house of Ben Gurion. He was the first prime minister of Israel and his house looked a lot like a normal middle class family of the 1940's. We stayed there for 20 minutes and got back on the bus to drive another 30 minutes back the Old City of Beer Sheva. We went to a museum for about 10 minutes and saw "Abraham's Well" which was not Abraham's well really at all. It was just a well.... We had some time (obviously) to kill before we had to go home so they told us to walk around Beer Sheva for awhile. Beer Sheva might have been equivilently as dumpy as Bethlehem... I spent 10 sheks on a CAN of Dr. Pepper (which is about $2.50... you gotta do what you gotta do for the DP) and called it a day. A group of us just waited in the parking lot until people got back to the bus. It was also weird because it only rains about 2 inches in the desert each YEAR and today was that day. It was oddly dusty and foggy out. I would probably say the highlight of my day was when I saw a man, (this makes number 6) peeing on the side of the road right by our bus. Don't worry folks, I wasn't close enough to where it was completely awkward, but it was funny all the same. On the way home, a group of people decided it was open mic day and tell jokes on the bus... some were funny and some were ridiculous.

The first picture is me walking across "Abraham's Well." It was QUITE boring, so I had to do something fun.... Mrs. Rina said no, but Dr. van der Laan said go for it!! So I did... haha. The second is of Me, Katie, Alexis and Mrs. Rina. I do love those girls :)

I hope tomorrow is a dress day. I miss wearing dresses!