On arrival... with pictures!

[Sorry the pictures weren't working! I tried a shortcut that apparently didn't work so well... I could see them but I guess none of you could!]

I am finally back in Jerusalem!!!! It is soooo good to be back, let me tell you! I arrived in J-Town after a personal-record-breaking 61 hours in transit (I left my house at 2:30 on Friday afternoon and arrived in Jerusalem at 3:30 Monday morning). Here's a brief synopsis. Friday afternoon, I go to the airport early to get some dinner before my flight took off; this flight turns out to be delayed almost 2 hours due to weather. When I arrive in Atlanta I have missed my connecting flight to Tel Aviv, so I spend the next 24 hours in the airport (which, by the way, is in fact bigger than the state of Rhode Island). My flight the next day takes off on time; 2 hours later, the captain announces that something is wrong with the plane's de-icing mechanism, so we are turning around and going back to Atlanta. (If you think that's the worst, just wait.) We sit in the airplane for 2 1/2 hours before the captain announces that if what they're doing doesn't fix the problem in the next 15 minutes, we will deplane, cancel the flight, and fly out the next day. (THIS was the worst moment.) After 23 minutes, we are told that the plane is now functioning properly and will take off shortly. There was a lot of clapping when we touched down in Tel Aviv.

The parents and I are traveling around for the next few days. I keep wanting to say bombing around, because I guess I say that sometimes, but then I realize it would be wildly inappropriate in this context. Yes... so we're off to the Dead Sea and the Negev tomorrow. Here is a snapshot of what we did today... it was an adventure for sure! I'll have to tell more detail later.


We think we found Adullam! This is the first cave we found. See 1 Samuel 22:1-2, 2 Samuel 23:13-14.





Coming down from the top. We were the only tourists we saw pretty much all day, so I decided to go for the super-tourist look.





These are the ruins at the top.





More caves! There were a whole bunch. Pretty sweet.






Even Mom climbed down into the cave, which may or may not have held a first-century tomb... I'm not sure. [Edit: I showed the picture to my teacher, and she thought it was a first-century tomb, just as I thought.]




More family adventures to come!