Like I said before on the last day on our Galilee adventure we drove down the coast and we made our way to Haifa. Emily and I are posing in front of the Bahai'i Gardens. These are one of the prettiest gardens that I have ever been to. unfortunately they were locked on the day we went so you should google it to get a good picture of them. But the gardens were produced by the Bahai'i religion and they believe that all religions bring you to God. So this garden represents all the major world religions, sadly they do not accept Mormonism and it is pretty much the only religion that they think is wrong so we don't have a section dedicated to us but thats ok, it was beautiful.
The next stop was at the Haifa cemetery where we got to see the grave markers for the first missionaries in the latter days that came to the state of Israel. This was a very spiritual and special experience for us. We learned about two men who gave up everything; their families, education, and work to go on missions to the Haifa area. Sadly both of them died of diseases while serving but they were the ones who started missionary work here! Today this is a HUGE deal and part of the reason why I am allowed to be here in Jerusalem. When the government tries to tell us that we are a new religion and that we came out of no where we can show them these head stones and prove that we have been around since the 1800's. I am so grateful for those men and the sacrifices that they made so I can be here today.
The next stop was at Caesarea. This was an ancient biblical town where Herod the Great lived and named it Caesarea after Augustus Caeser. There is a large hippodrome where they had chariot races, large pools, and large theater. It was so gorgeous because it was right on the ocean and the cool breeze just felt so nice. This was one of the nicest ancient Roman cities that I have ever been to. We saw one of the dungeons or prisons where Paul was most likely imprisoned.
The rest of the pictures are just some extra fun pictures. There are a few other places that I went and I have not posted about and I will just have to skim over...sorry. One of the days we went floating down the river Jordan and I think that was the highlight of my trip! We just got these large rafts that fit like 6 people. The beginning we stayed calm and floated down but then things got physical. Some one flipped me out of the boat and war broke out. We spent the next two hours floating down finding all of the rafts from our groups and laying siege on them. The river was only a few feet deep so nothing bad happened but it was soooooo much fun! We named our boat USS Democracy and we had our own wolf cry and secret signs. It got intense.
Tel Dan
So when we were in Tiberias we came across these gems. They are full body jumpsuits that are neon and say "Don't Be Jel." But everyone was super jealous of them.
We previewed these puppies at the bonfire. (They call them fire bons in Israel) The nights in Galilee were the greatest. We always stayed up way too late for our own good but it was the only time that we were not dying of heat strokes. We had bonfires. We went night swimming, hopefully my professors aren't reading this because it was against the rules. We would play games all night. Watched the woman's final soccer match. Watch movies. Just sit and share stories all night. Good times.
While in the Galilee we made a music video called the Sea of Galilee and this was a snap shot of us singing. Watch we are the next N'sync or Backstreet boys-- girls version.
We even have a groupie!
I feel like I just keep on saying how amazing the Galilee was, but it was! It is really sad because this experience is coming to a close but I consider the Galilee to the last hurrah! And it exceeded all expectations.
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