Floating in the Dead Sea!

I can't believe today is our last day already and that in  7 hours I'll be at the airport hoping for an on-time flight.  Sorry I've been MIA the past two days...but they have been packed with touring, camel-riding, Dead Sea floating and various other activities.

We visited the Mount of Olives, (which  you will see boasts an amazing view of Old Town!), the Garden of Gethsemane, the House of Caiaphas (where Jesus is though to be held in an underground cave) the city of Bethlehem, Jericho (10,000 years old!), Qumran (where they found the Dead Sea Scrolls), Masada, The Upper Room...I am sure there are more that I am forgetting & the above were not in that order.

A view of the Old City and Temple Mount
from Mount of Olives

Along the Palm Sunday Path we walked to
the Garden of Gethsemane we stopped at the largest
Jewish cemetery in the world....$30,000 for a plot!

Can't go anywhere without our towel!
That's Betty Ann - our group leader...also a Pittsburgh
native!

I think Ryan is sick of me making him take
pictures with me....

Some of these Olive Trees are up to 3,000 years old...
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

Dunno...but funny

The road next to us is the path Jesus walked from the
caves of the Church of St. Peter to Mount of Olives

Camel - just tied up in someone front yard...pet?

Spot where Jesus is believed to have been
born.

Catholic altar in the Church of the Nativity....
some of you might recognize it!

Underground caves in the Church of the Nativity..
this is in the original church

A carving in one of the caves

Did not have time for a latte in Bethlehem!  Bummer!

A view of the Dead Sea from Masada

King Herod's spa...from thousands of years ago....they were
spoiled even then!! 

Another view of the desert from Masada -
can you say HOT?!?!

Dead Sea!

My mom refers to us as "the teenagers"...
I'm not arguing!

Sycamore tree in Jericho

He and I had a brief time together...but
I did not catch the ride on camera.