a dead sea focus

It's hard to rank the days on this trip but if I did then today would definitely be near the top. It's not that anything we did today was the best thing we've done, just that I really liked everything we did, which actually wasn't a whole lot.

We started off early this morning going to Qumran to see some reconstruction of the Essene community there and see where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Then we headed on to see the place where David hid when Saul was chasing him. It was a really beautiful place. I was with Shannon and Caitlin the whole time and we didn't have time to make it to the top but it was still a really good experience.

After that we got to go swim in the Dead Sea, which was just awesome. It's impossible to drown in that water if you don't want to. It's very hard to swim because your feet are pretty much out of the water when you go horizontal. You also don't want to put your head under. I didn't, but some people did. They regretted it.

We're in Eilat now, which is the most fully modern city we've been in yet. There are a lot of stores and stuff.

Tomorrow is mostly a free day so it will probably be a very short entry. I can probably tell you now what it will say: "We rode camels today. It was awesome."