May 18, 2004

So many things have happpened since i could last get to a computer. I am actually atthe airport now and using one of their computers, however, the keys are a little hard to use so forgive if I make mistakes.
On Tus we all hopped in th car at about 9am and went to see the Ancient boat that dates back to the time of jesus. We spent an hour their before venturing on to Bet Shean, crossing over the Jorden River. Bet Shean is one of the best preserved roman cities that still excist today. Our goal was to make it to Eilat by that night, so we did not stay more than a half hour at Bet SHean. When we first arrived in the area we were disappointed because all we could find was a ampitheater. But after asking many locals e finally figured out that we where in the wrong spot! Which is nothing new for us. the city was amazing to view. the road that goes down the middle of the city was so vast and breath taking. Columns lined the entire street.
As we made our way to Jeruseleum to see the Garden of Gethsemane before our trip to the bottom of Israel, we wanted to stopp at a place where we could see the Jorden river better, but the farther we went down the river became at border between Jorden and and Israel making it impossible to see it without having many soldiers surrounding us. So instead we took pictures of the Jorden valley as we tried to take one of our famous detours to Jeruseleum which place us evrywhere, but Jersueleum! So after an hour and half of driving in the wilderness we decided to go back the way we came. We are not sure where we ended up however, it was a little intimidated at times. Praise God in all things.
Because our trip to Jeruseleum took 5 hours instead of two we had to miss the Garden. It was good I got hose pictures of the view in our firt attempt at seeing it. I don;t know what the Garden looks like but at least I kow the view Jesus had while he prayed!!!!