Like I mentioned earlier, on the second day we were going to the Dead Sea and Masada.The Dead Sea was awesome! You just float in it, the salt content is so high. My feet kept floating higher than my torso, so it was a little weird. Well, at least the fish don't bite- wait there are no fish!!!! Hahahah! (In the Mediterraneans, the fish sneak up on you and bite you- eergh.)
After the Dead Sea, we went for a walk in the Ein Gedi National Park. And we saw some Ibex there! They look sorta like goats, except they have these huge horns that curve backwards. It's amazing that they can keep their head up! We also saw a Rock Hyrax, an animal that looks like an overgrown guinea pig :) They're supposed to be related to the elephant through something crazy like the footbone.
After the park we went to Masada. Masada is a huge rock formation, that has sharp, almost vertical cliffs all around the flat place at the top. When the Romans were conquering Israel, the rebel Jews fled here and made their home on the top. It withstood the Roman army for years, but when the Romans were finally going to conquer it, the Jews did a surprising thing: instead of going into slavery, they all committed suicide- all but seven who lived to spread the news. Ten men were chosen to kill the others. Then one was elected to kill the other nine men and then kill himself. But they did it out of choice, not by force. I think that is a very honorable thing to do.We took the cable car up, and then walked down. it was really cool. Afterwards we took some buses back home. Our trip to the Dead Sea, although short, was very exciting. I'm glad I went.
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Hi, Rachael-
I'm FINALLY going to sign up for a Google account so I can send a comment to you on your great site. It is so interesting and we all look forward to reading it.
We were thinking about you swimming in the dead sea while you were gone. It's neat to see a picture of you floating in the water. At our house in Colorado it wasn't above freezing from Wednesday the 21st through Saturday the 24th. Today we went for a hike in the balmy weather (the high today was 48F!). We haven't had much snow this winter. The four corners area did get hit the day after Thanksgiving with a storm that dropped over a foot.
We went to Denver for Thanksgiving and there were 20 people...and 9 dogs. If everyone's dog had come there would have been about 8 more!
Keep sending your wonderful updates
Sherri
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