In the morning we went to Kibbutz Ein Hashofet to visit the whole kibbutz. We went to the area where the cows were milked. We did one of the funnest things of the day, which was picking avocados. We got into a machine that had wheels on the bottom, and a crane that was holding you in a giant bucket where you could control the motion of the crane. We also saw a place where they raised all the little chicks. It was really hot, and the guide told us there were 10,000 chicks there.
Then we left and drove to a tell called Megiddo. A tell is a hill where, on top, there is the newest layer where people settled. Underneath is another layer for the people a century before, then underneath another, then another, then another... So basically, it's a place with layers from different centuries on top of each other. In the entrance of Megiddo, there is a model where you press buttons to show lights to see where things are and where parts can lift up to show layers underneath. It was a pretty cool model. Then we walked up to the tell and looked around. The oldest layers of the tell were about 55oo years old. After that we went into a really big tunnel that was hundreds of yards long, and probably at least 100 feet deep. The reason they had the tunnel was to get water inside the city because the spring was outside the city walls, and they connected the tunnels with underground springs so that, when they were surrounded by enemies, they could still get water through the tunnel without having to leave the city. The tunnel came up at the edge of the outside road, so we had to walk 20 minutes outside the tell so that we could come back to the entrance.
Then we drove to the sea of Galilee, where we were staying, at a place called The Frenkels. Right when we got there, we saw this weird animal called the hyrax or a rock rabbit that we had never seen before. Right next to the house there was a line of huge rocks that was about 100 feet long, and Josh and I spent a long time in them while we were staying there. We even made a fort in there!
In the evening we drove to Rosh Pina, which is a old Jewish settlement from the 1800s. Then we had sandwiches and hummus for dinner at home.
2 comments:
That light-up model was hecka cool. As was the Frenkels. I trust in your next entry you mention the breakfasts we had there?
Hi Amy- you are most definetely right, the model was hecka cool, and breakfast at The Frenkels was hecka cooler!!
Love, Cami
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