Message

Pastor Gary with the message this morning.

Cruising part 2

Cruising

The sea of Galilee. The same one Jesus calmed

Norther Israel Map

We hang in Jesus' stomping grounds today!! :-)

Breakfast

Tiberius

And again another picture from our room but this time during the day. :-)

Finally in Israel

and I finally have internet from my computer.  I've been doing all the poting from my iPhone when we've been out and about!  I LOVE technology!...wait, I LOVE my Wife, Kids and Grandkids, I REALLY LIKE technology! :)

I've been passing on the comments that everyone has been sending, keep em coming :)

I'm going to try to use picassa or something like that to post a bunch of pictues.  we'll see if I'm succesful or not.  I'll let ya know.

it's SOOO nice to be in Israel.  It feels like we've been in the wilderness for 6 days (kinda like Moses and the gang)

I'll check back with you in the morning & updates thru out the day.

Love ya all and thanks for following along

Grama Carol and Grampa (Papa) say HI to Karl, Lanae, Rob, Jaime, Diego, Isaiah, Drew, Zeph, Gracie :), Machaiah and Sammie.

Tiberius

We have finally landed in Israel!!! Yeah!! Here is the view from our balcony. We start in the morning with a boat ride on the sea of galilee. I'll have more pictures I. About 8 hours. Boker-tov (good night in Hebrew)

Btw the phone is now active

Jordan valley

We head down to Israel

Jerash

Walking among the ruins

Jerash

A HUGE Roman ruin that's still standing (most of it anyway)

All built in 91AD

View from Mt Nebo

What to see from Mt Nebo

Map of the area

Mt Nebo

This is looking over to the Jordan valley and Jericho.

Mt Nebo

The group at the view that God gave Moses

Amman from our balcony

We head today to Mt Nebo then to Israel for the rest of our stay.

Arrival in Amman

Just in case we were missing LA traffic.... :-)

We are in Amman and have another busy day tomorrow including Mt Nebo.

On to Amman

We finished Petra. 4 miles of walking after 10 miles at Mt Sinai. We are beat! Sorry about the picture quality but I had to hold on and shoot at the same time.

Nap time :-)

Carol the explorer

Our Granddaughter, Gracie was told we're doing "Dora the Explorer" things.

We all are!

Petra

Were HERE!!!! It's MUCH more majestic inperson!! WOW!!

Petra

The initial entrance gorge

Petra

Into the gorge and already in trouble with the Romans

Pastor Gary

And Sharon overlooking the Petra mountains.

Overlooking the Araba Valley

John & Mary Davie in front of the Petra mountains.

Security

Our jordanian security guard Omar

Jordanian tour guide

Her name is Madeline and she's great

Breakfast

At our hotel just before we head to Petra. Talk to ya soon!!!

View from our hotel room

We head to Petra this morning. I will picture journal thru out the day and then when we get to Amman this evening I upload them all. Everyone is having a great time. We'll be walking ALOT today but it will be WAAAYYY worth it :-)

Everyone says HI and we're blowing kisses :-)

I'll post a pix at breakfast of the group in a bit.

Jordan border

Another picture of the crew

THANK YOU to Lanae for helpin Papa out on the web while the Internet was non existent :-)

I have 2 hours to update so here they come.

Leaving Egypt

Had a great time in Egypt now heading to Joran via Israel :-)

Travel Phone

Bob asked me to inform everyone that the travel phone, which permits them free unlimited incoming calls will only work in Israel. I think 2 more days they will be there. Once again the number is (011) 972546986830.
You can get fairly inexpensive calling plans through your wireless carrier. I think I got 15 cents a minute, you just talk REAL fast!!!
Be praying!!!
Lanae

Jordan

We just crossed into Jordan and ready to visit Petra tomorrow. First dinner then BED!!!! The pace is killin us :-)

Sunrise from the top of Mt Sinai

Mt Sinai

Wellllll, 8 courageous souls attempted to climb the granite mountain today. We all made it to the camel stand 3/4 of the way up. Only 1 made it to the tippy top. Carol Rogers! Carol Kral gets the atta girl of the day for walking the whole way up and down. Way to many adventures to put Down here. We'll tell ya much more when we get home.

Lanae here, posting for Bob

Hello, this is Lanae, Bob's daughter-in-law, I just got off the phone with him, he asked me to update you all. He doesn't have internet for 24 hours, when they get to Jordan he will be posting and updating then.
Please continue to pray for all of them!
Be blessed!

My Sinai

The Bedouin host :-)

My Sinai

Our dinner in a bedouin tent. FUN

Fwd: Papyrus paper making

Subject: Papyrus paper making

Fatima showing us how to make paper in Cairo

Fwd: Lunch

Chicken, hummus, beans, potatoes and beets. YUMMY!!

Papyrus paper making

Fatima showing us how to make paper in Cairo

Lunch

Chicken, hummus, beans, potatoes and beets. YUMMY!!

Dinner on the river Nile

We are cruising the ancient river Nile that Cleopatra and Mark Anthony cruised when they fell in love on her barge. Maybe they were eating the same food we are :-)

Time to shop

At a chach-ki store in Cairo.

Pastor Gary and Sharon

The ride of a lifetime

The hanging church in Coptic Cairo

Built on top of a Roman fortress.

Egyptian Museum

Here are a few of us outside

The place is like the smithsonian. ALOT of Egyptian stuff

Nile

Over the longest river, the Nile

Starting our tour

Here is our tour guide Osama as we start our first day of touring after breakfast and Gods word, nourishment for the body and soul.

Cairo

Well we made it here safe and sound. As soon as we stepped off our 20 hour travel ordeal they had us moving at 100 miles per hour :-) We went straight from the airport to the "pyramids light and sound show" where they told the story of the pyramids from the perspective of the great sphinx. It was great except most of us slept thu most of it :-). Then it was to dinner afterward at the hotel and then bed time.

I will update more thru out the day today as we see the pyramids in the daytime. I cant believe were actually walking on the same ground Moses and the Pharaoh walked. Pretty cool.

Internet is pretty expensive here so I'll buy an hour tonite when we get back and upload a bunch of cool pictures.

And if you thought LA freeways are bad HOLEY MOLEY you can get KILLED over here:-)

Everyone says hi and were having a great time.

I'll post thruout the day today.

(it's 4:30 here and were wide awake :-) )

Cairo

Weerrreeeee heerreeee

Our flight to Cairo

Thank goodness theres entertainment for our 11 HOUR FLIGHT. There's no international wifi so I'll post in the morning.

Good night (or morning)

Ya wanna see where we are?

I LOVE in-flight WiFi!!  (I'm SUCH a geek!)

In-Flight Tracking Link

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I asked if I could drive........

They said no. Don't understand why? :-)

LAX to JFK

Drive

God is great. Our morning drive.