Sea of Galilee

We had an adventurous day today. We took an Israeli bus to the Sea of Galilee and saw the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, the Mount of Beatitudes, and walked in the Sea of Galilee.

The bus was in an interesting experience - everything was in Hebrew but we made it safely. The Israeli soldiers ride the bus often so our buses were filled with soldiers. The soldiers carry their guns everywhere, even when they are off duty. At one point an 18 yr old soldier was dozing off in the back of bus with his mouth open and his M-16 pointed right at Tiffany and I!! (Don't worry - we don't think it was loaded) It just takes a while to get used to so many weapons everywhere.

Tonight we met up with our CPT team and I'm very excited to get started on our peacemaking work. We are a group of 13 persons from different parts of America and Scotland and range in age from 24 to 73. We all have different jobs to do this week and Tiffany and I are worship leaders.

Last night we went into the new city to meet one of Tiffany's friends. We had a great time seeing the nightlife and hanging out in the middle of the "new city" which is very modern and clean. A van pulled up in the middle of the street and some youth got out and started blaring music and jumped on top of the van, dancing like crazy. I think it was some kind of youth outreach because it was religious music. I have a video to upload when I have capability to do so.

We have eaten some delicious food! Lamb, chicken, couscous, falafel - yum!