Love these girls with all my heart

Eating cow tongue! It was actually really good until I looked at it closer and saw taste buds...ew.

The Jordan River after church. What a great way to end Sabbath. It was funny how crowded and how many tourists were here. There were so many interesting baptisms going on all over this section of the river

This is the view from the church building in Tiberias. No church building but Jerusalem can beat this view

Sunsets in Galilee

We hiked to a freezing cold waterfall in Galilee and it was beautiful!

We love Piers

We were both pretty beat after a long day in Galilee

The Mount of Beatitudes. Definitely one of my favorite churches!

Tabgha. The spot of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes

Ever heard the story of the mote and the beam? Yeah.

In the synagogue in Capernaum

At the church on Mt. Tabor, a possible spot of the Mt. of Transfiguration

Us and our camel sandals on the top of Mt. Arbel overlooking all of Galilee

In Nazareth. Look at this little guy. Isn't he just precious?!

Me and Michelle showin off our hula dancing skills at Hawaiian night

The baby Jesus was born in a.... cave. And he was laid in a stone water trough. All of my childhood memories are now crushed. I guess we'll be making some adjustments to our annual nativity reenactment that we do every Christmas Eve. I learned a lot of new things about the birth of Christ while I was in Bethlehem. It was a neat experience to be able to walk to streets of Bethlehem, and go to Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity. The grotto, where Jesus was born, is located underneath the church. It was an amazing experience to touch the ceiling of the cave and think about what happened there and the people who were once there.

We went to Bethlehem this week with our Islam teacher, who also teaches at Bethlehem University. We got to mingle and talk with some of the students at Bethlehem U for a while. Bethlehem is in the West Bank, so we won't be able to go there again, but it was fun to be able to go and experience the local Palestinian college atmosphere!

Lemonade with mint. We like to call it a delicacy of Jerusalem

Painting a mural at a local elementary school. Look at that sky...tis' true..I'm an artist