Caesarea Phillipi and Nimrod’s Castle

Hazor

Today was awesome! We had another field trip. We went to Hazor. That was cool. We saw a Canaanite Palace and lots of Israelite things. There, the Seely's sang "What the Tel" for us. It was really funny.

Next we went to Tel Dan, which is now a nature preserve. It was beautiful. At Tel Dan, they have a Canaanite Gat that is mostly intact. It has mudbrick arches. That proves that the Romans did NOT invent the arch!

The ruins at Hazor

Anyway, it was nice. Our next stop was Banias, aka Caesarea Phillipi where Christ supposedly gave Peter the keys. It was really interesting and we took pictures in the place where a picture was taken for the back of the Bible. It was cool.

We ate lunch there and then drove to a place called Banias Falls. We hiked down to an amazing waterfall. It was great and really beautiful.

Our final stop of the day was Nimrod's Castle. That was cool, but a lot of people broke the rules. There were 3 things that we weren't to do: go near the cliffs, go near the exterior walls, and go where signs said not to go. Many people climbed the walls. People were doing it all over and Brother Draper got yelled at. In return, Brother Draper yelled at us, told us he was embarrassed, that we had no integrity, and that he was going to tell Brother Huntington that he didn't want to take us around anymore.

More ruins

There was dead silence on the bus after that...it was horrible and I felt horrible. I'm sure everyone else did, too. After a while, he got up and talked again, told us he didn't hate us and that he wasn't going to talk to Brother Huntington.

After we got back, I messed with my pictures until dinner. After dinner, I took a nap until our class party on the beach. We had a bonfire. I went down a little late because of that. It was bad because I had the thought, oops! But I had short notice, so I didn't feel too bad, and I still gave my thought.

It was fun, but tiring as usual. 

The tunnel . . . need I say more?

Entering the tunnel

Aimee and I inside the tunnel

Having fun

Now to Tel Dan!  (Ha ha, what are we going to tell Dan?)

Nature Preserve

Map of Tel Dan

Inside the nature preserve

Beautiful, isn't it?

On the road to paradise . . .

A cultic site at Tel Dan

The gate of the arches, it was actually diffiucult
to see because some restoration efforts are being done

Caesarea Philipi

Caesarea Philipi

Does this look familiar to anyone?

Now with me!!

Banias

View from Banias

Banias Falls

Shea, Megan and I in front of Banias Falls

More falls

Nimrod Castle

Nimrod Fortress

Megan and I holding up a large stone with
our pinkies.  Yep, we're pretty strong...

Beautiful countryside

Debbie and I

View of the fortress

I love this photo, though I shouldn't
have taken it.  We weren't supposed to
climb on anything.  But others were
doing it, and the photo was amazing,
so I couldn't resist.  I know, it's not an
excuse, but I gave in to peer pressure...