Hi everybody,
Sam here, posting from the holy land. Sorry I haven’t posted sooner, but I’ve been really busy, and I still am, so I will quickly tell you the highlights of my trip so far.
My trip started with me catching up on my movie viewing on the 17-hour plane ride. Then, for the first 10 days of my trip I met just about every cousin I have in Israel (which is about 70 cousins!). In between the breakfasts, lunches and dinners with my cousins I also made it to Masada, the Dead Sea, the old city and the Kotel. I also got to see a synagogue that my great, great grandfather built.
The day I hiked Masada, unfortunately, it was about 42 degrees Celcius, so it was a challenge to keep hydrated. Floating in the Dead Sea was also fun. I went to the Kotel with my grandfather. It was really interesting because he lived in Israel before it was a state, so his perspective was very different then mine. I learned a lot from my grandpa when he was telling me about the synagogue his grandfather build. I went and saw it. It’s small but very nice and still used every day.
After the ten days of intense family, I took a vacation from my vacation and went to Eilat for a week. Eilat is at the bottom of Israel and is right on the border of Jordan and Egypt. Just as I were approaching Eilat, I saw anti-missile missiles pointed towards Iran. Eilat really fun. The first big thing I did there was shoot a sniper rifle at a shooting range, and my dad shot a glock (pistol). The next day I went snorkeling, it was really fun and there were some amazing fish. On the last day I was in Eilat it was 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit)! I spent most of that day trying not to melt.
That brings me to today. Today I went to see the Israel Museum. It was very cool. They had a miniature model of the old city during the time just before the second temple was destroyed (66 C.E.). Then I went to see the Dead Sea scrolls, the exhibit just put on display a scroll found near the Dead Sea, which is from about 120 B.C.E.
That is all the time I have, so bye and good luck on the masterpiece theater.
-Sam
