So it's been a rather jampacked week and sometimes my brain feels like mush every night because I feel like I'm learning sooo much. I don't even know why the US bothers to teach history- we have like 300 years and this area has like 4,000 years. Kinda funny.

Anyways... I'm not gonna list everything I've seen or learned because just assume that if it's of importance and it was in Jordan or Israel, I've been there and learned a lot about it. And if you want to find out more, I'll gladly sit down and make you look through all my pics and listen to my shpiel (probably incorrect spelling. just use phonetics, folks).

Jordan was absolutely incredible! The country (arab and muslim if you were wondering) ranges from extreme desert to a coastal city on the Red Sea and everything in between. But my most favorite thing was Petra. Pictures and words will not do this 30,000 person ancient city justice. It is UNREAL!!! The buildings are beautiful and carved out of the side of the mountains. The entire city can be protected by 2 archers since the only entrance is through the main seek (a long, narrow path between steep cliffs that is about a mile in length). And they've only discovered a fraction of what is there- they are working on uncovering an olympic size pool and waterfalls-- remember, this is in the middle of the desert where annual rainfall is less than 2 inches... and we think our generation is sooo smart. We are idiots compared to these people!!

So I'm back in Israel and touring the holy sites and every body of water... the Dead Sea was really interesting since you literally float on top of the water because it's super saturated. And we're staying at this really neat old Scottish hospital on the Sea of Galilee (actually a lake if you were curious) for the next few days. I'll definitely add some Israeli pics soon since I know you're DYING for updates!