From the Sea of Galilee

Well, I only have a little bit of time to type since I only bought a 30 minute internet card, so what you get is the unedited, poorly thought out, fast typing about what has been going on the last 2 days.

Yesterday we arrived in Israel after a really long bus ride from Cairo. Other than the fact the the bus broke down and it took 2 hours to get out of Cairo, the trip itself wasn't too bad. Once we got to Taba, at the Israeli boarder, we went through passport stuff and took a taxi to the city of Eilat. There we at breakfast at a cafe and then went down to the little airport to see if we could find a cheap flight to the northern part of the country. ALL WE WANTED TO DO WAS CHECK THE PRICES FOR TICKETS. The security people said that they needed to ask us some questions...no biggie. They separated Henry and I so that they could check our facts. In the end, it was a 2 hour interrogation that was completely unfounded and unnecessary. They searched through all of our stuff and even did a strip-search.

Needless to say, I was quite upset. Because all we wanted was to know how much it cost. We will be going to the U.S. Embassy to file a complaint.

After that we left for Haifa in the northern part of Israel. It's a port town and was quite strange because it was so quiet there--nothing at all like Cairo. It's strange to actually look forward to reading signs in Arabic...most of the stuff is written in Hebrew, and there is very little English.

After Haifa we went to Nazareth to see the supposed place where the angel appeared to Mary...and Joseph's carpentry shop.

(More details on all of this when I get back to Cairo)

We are now in Galilee...going to bike around the lake tomorrow to take everything in.

We also just learned that AUC will be having an extended break due to swine flu...which is really annoying, but we're going to just do some more traveling. I'm not sure where yet. We'll think about it and then I'll let ya'll know.

I know that was scattered, but those are the latest facts, and my time is running out.

Happy Thursday and Happy Thanksgiving

ps--ate Thanksgiving dinner at a gas station in Galilee