Asia and Eden in the door of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem
jerusalem and petra
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I took my mother, sister Mandy and her
husband Jeff, and our two oldest girls to Jerusalem and Petra. The girls
did really
well and enjoyed the chance to see the sights in and around Jerusalem, the Sea
of Galilee, and loved climbing around in Petra.
Asia and Eden in the door of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem
This is Asia and Eden singing a primary song inside the Garden Tomb in
Jerusalem
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the fields outside the city, once
and still home to the shepherds.
Asia and Eden in the church where St. Mary was supposedly buried
Asia overlooking Jerusalem
The Dome of the Rock and wall of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Sundown on the Sea of Galilee
Me with the girls in the ruins of Capernaum, the city where Jesus lived much of
his adult life.
Swimming and mudding in the Dead Sea
In the amazingly beautiful Petra canyon
The famous Treasury at Petra
The girls had such a great time climbing around on all the sandstone
Asia and Eden were unbelievably excited about seeing snow in mountains on the
way to Petra. After throwing some snow around for a while
and building a couple small snowmen, they both said "Dad! My hands really hurt,
they are burning!" I realized that they did not know what snow
was like and had no memory of what it felt like to play in the snow. They
really wanted to take snow back to Cairo so that they could show
it to India because "She loves the Frosty the Snowman song but has never seen
snow before." They are right, our two youngest have never seen snow.