A group of friends and I went to the Dead Sea on Friday. We rented a car in order to go to Tel Aviv on Saturday (since it's Shabbat, the car rental places
aren't open that day, so we got the car Friday morning) and decided after lunch to drive down to the Dead Sea. It's about an hour, an hour and a half--so five of us from Northwestern piled into this tiny little rental car and took off! I wish I could have driven--you only have to be 21 to rent a car here! But alas, I have not even reached that important milestone. Anyway, the Dead Sea was so fun! I still have to figure out how to upload pictures onto this site, but someday they will come! Floating in the water is just the strangest feeling. I couldn't help but giggle a lot. We also dug out some of the clay-mud stuff and smeared it all over ourselves :) . Definitely a fun fun fun impulse trip. We all had just a blast.In other random news, the JUC campus overlooks the Hinnom Valley, right on top of a pretty large outdoor stadium where they have concerts--like right now. There's a Black Eyed Peas concert going on as I type, and we can hear everything. It's very distracting, but so fun! What a random place to "go" to a Black Eyed Peas concert! Of course I really need to get some reading done, and that's not happening so much, but whatever. This concert is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. Just like everything else we do here, I guess.
I am continuing to love it here! We walked all over Jerusalem today, looking at important biblical sites. For example, we walked through Hezekiah's tunnel, water and all (2 Kings 20:20). We also went to the City of David (what Jerusalem was in the time of King David), climbed around some first-century tombs, and visited the pools of Bethesda and Siloam. We went lots of other places too, but I don't have time to list them all! I really should get some work done... good luck Ruth!
