Month: January 2015

Freda: The weather was so much better today. The high was about 45 degrees, but sunny. We still had to bundle up (this meant 4 layers) but no umbrellas or hoods. What a difference the sun makes! There is just so much we don’t want to forget: the sights, the fabulous explanations we are hearing, […]

Katie: We woke up this morning to a blanket of snow everywhere in Bethlehem. It was beautiful, especially knowing that they only get snow about once per decade here – how special to be here while it was happening! Unfortunately, we got a late start this morning due to the snow – most of the […]

Last night we stayed up way too late- me reading and Katie working on her notes for her class.   So we were dragging this morning. We get a wake up call between 6 and 6:30 every morning and it was tempting to skip breakfast and just get coffee as we were leaving the hotel. But we […]

Thursday, January 8 Katie: We started the day at Mount Tabor, which is traditionally thought to be the site of Christ’s transfiguration. There is a Franciscan church on the mountain filled with beautiful mosaics that depict the event. (I am so sorry that we have not had enough bandwidth to upload pictures to the blog!! […]

Freda: We checked out of the hotel in Bethlehem and got on the bus heading west toward the Mediterranean Sea.  We drove up the coast toward Caesarea Maritima, another of Herod’s “projects”.  We woke up to rain and cooler temperatures and it only got worse during the day.  They were expecting snow in that area […]

Freda: We got news yesterday that my luggage had been found, so we were excited to think we’d have some clean clothes, toiletries and a blow drier. Yeah!  We were getting some bad vibes about Katie’s luggage after Whitney spent a couple hours back and forth on the phone with United and Lufthansa baggage claim […]

And Katie and I arrived at the hotel in the middle of the night Sunday night, the professor told us that they would be leaving around 9:30 am to start the tours. He reassured us that it would be perfectly okay to skip the morning tours since we were so tired, and we thought about it a bit, but […]

It’s Tuesday night and this is the first chance I’ve actually been able to sit down and write about what’s been going on. Katie and I are going to put this mini blog together and try to keep you filled in on our trip, so sometimes it’ll be me writing and sometimes it’ll be Katie. […]