Every Monday we go on a field trip and this field trip we went to Valley of Elah, Beth Shemesh, Azekah, Bet Guvrin, Lachish, and Micah's cave.
First we went to Beth Shemesh, which sadly i forgot my camera out of the bus. Basically it was just a Tel, and sadly im kinda getting over Tel's, honestly they all look the same. And Lachish was a Tel also, so..sorry no pictures.
Anyways then we went to Bet Guvrin which had some sweet sites.
The Bell Caves
And then we went down into some old archeological site digs of where the some people lived (i forget who?!) but they were dove breaders and they used the doves for sacrifices, meat, and fertilizer. So basically these people had a lot of doves and they had little birdhouse like coops for them, so this is Katie and I in one of the coops that i dont think was for the doves but whateves..
(us pretending to be doves)
They also made wine too, so this is the wine press that is still intact!
Outside all the caves and underground places, the outside was beautiful! And it had just rained a couple days before which probably explains its greenery.
(me pondering)
Then we went to the Valley of Elah, which is where David slayed Goliath. It was way fun because our leaders gave us slings so that we could try out our skills of sling shots, sadly i dont think i could have slayed Goliath
And us acting it out: me being David, with Corina on top of Aaron
Next came the Micah Cave's which seriously was the coolest thing! We climbed through this tiny little opening of a cave and had to crawl on our hands and knees which led to the big opening of the cave, but the sweetest part was that the big opening led to three different tiny openings which we got to explore around, and all of it was crawling on our hands and knees, and sliding on our backs and stomachs! It seriously was like a playground for archeologist, or for us :)
This is a picture of my friend Taelor, but it shows how small the openings are...
And we got REALLY dirty
(Anna, Ron, John, Taelor, Katie, John, Carrie, Diana, me, Dan)
And for some reason our group has a thing for butt pictures?! So we had to take one of our dirty bums :)
(Carrie, Leslie, Katie, Anna, Natalie, and me)
And here are our cute diry boys
(Ron, Jeff, Alex, Brian, John, Aaron, and Dan)
And this is a random picture that i took of me trying to be artsy, which i thought worked out very nicely
Then lastly we went to a mountian/hill called Azekah which basically was a look out for the Valley of Elah.
Here we are doing a jumping picture
(Carrie, me and Katie)
Super fun field trip, and so grateful for hot showers :)