You gotta love it :): Jericho and Herod's Winter Palace

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jericho and Herod's Winter Palace

Ok, I am desperately trying to catch up on blogging!!! So, a few weeks ago, we took a trip to Jericho and to see the ruins of Herod's Winter Palace. It was so fun! As you will see, I was in a sling for this trip. To make a long story short, I had a little bit of shoulder/lung trouble my first couple of weeks here. The night before this field trip, I was in the emergency room getting a chest x-ray, which was quite the experience! But not to worry, there was nothing seriously wrong and I was feeling much better about a week after that field trip! Here are some pics from our field trip:

Some of the ruins at Herod's Winter Palace! It still blows my mind that this these walls are still here after so many thousand years. So cool!

My heart ached a little bit when we met this little boy. All of the kids run around barefoot here, which blows my mind because I am pretty sure I wouldn't make it 1 step! But this little guy's heel was bleeding a ton, and it was obvious he was hurting. We tried to give him some Neosporin and a bandaid, but he wouldn't let us put it on. Finally, we just gave him the bandaid and he ran off happy as a clam :-) Hope his little foot is better!

Some boys came over wanting to give us a donkey ride. Obviously, we didn't take the ride, but they sure wanted us to come! Now if you know me, you know that I am not the biggest animal person in the world. But I really did feel bad for these donkeys because those boys were whipping them like crazy!

Some little kids came over with their baby goats to show us and take pictures. Mostly they wanted money..... But they were really cute, and they followed us all over the ruins at Herod's Winter Palace.