An incredible afternoon

I've been terrible with updating and I apologize. Ive' been having some great times here but just been lazy about blogging. Last update, I wrote that Tuesday, I did nothing. Well, that was a lie. It ended up being an incredibly awesome afternoon.

Amos, Karen, Roni and I spent the afternoon at this incredible location, whose name, sadly I cannot remember. We drove through some beautiful locations, including a tell (second picture down) where King David used to wander before he was King David.
We eventually pulled off the paved road into an army-training area where we did a little off roading in the Jeep until we pulled off to the side of the unpaved road and parked. We pulled two brooms out of the back on the Jeep, which was very confusing, and headed down a small hill ghrough tall grass.
We got down to an old ruin area which was clearly some sort of a building at one point. There were broken down columns surrounding a rectangular areas. The entire floor was covered by a thick layer of sand. Roni and I took the brooms and started sweeping and soon....
... this was revealed- authentic, legitimate, absolutely real Byzantine mosaics, still yet to be snatched up by some museum. They covered all of the floor and several side rooms and were covered with the sand in order to keep them from being bleached out by the sun. They were amazing- so vividly colored with beautiful pictures.





After we got a chance to admire and then re-cover the mosaics, we did a little more wandering around the area, including going to see a large room that was slightly lower down in the ground.
Then we discovered an absolutely gigantic cave, where they would often store food and supplies, but also hide if necessary.


I loved lying in the grass- so soft and comfortable and green.
We ended up pretty near the West Bank- behind that hill is Hebron.
Our last stop was an outlook that faced west- we could see Carmei Yosef, Tel Aviv, Ashdod adn Ashqelon from one stop looking west....
and Hebron and the West Bank when we faced East.
On the way home we passed Meggido, where David supposedly fought Goliath. Incredible.

As for what's been going on since that day until now: we took Roni to the airport, I finished all my English books, I saw Alice in Wonderland in 3-D (awesome!), I took the train to Tel Aviv and got myself a cell phone, I wandered through some markets with a friend of my cousin, I had dinner with my best friend on the Tel Aviv harbour, I went to the beach and met a bunc hof new extended family members.

As for this coming week, I'll probably be around the kibbutz for a few days, on Friday we'll be up in Tel Aviv/Carmei Yosef to celebrate mine and my cousin's birthdays which are one day apart, and then I want to spend a few days up north in Akko and Caesarea. So we shall see! I'll try to be better about updating :)