Day 12: The Galilee

We loved Nazareth. It was a nice, quaint little town, especially compared to the hustle and bustle of Cairo. We talked with some nice Palestinian-Israeli-Arab-Christians (how's that for a minority?!) and enjoyed our stay at the convent. I was actually sad to leave, though leaving means one day closer to being moved into our little basement apartment near Center Street. Mmmmmmm.

But! I love the Galilee!! Sure it's much hotter, 100 times more humid, and 200 meters below sea level.... but it has a sweet LDS church building and a SEA! A sea that is actually more like a lake and really warm when you swim in it! But it's great! I thought Jerusalem was cool, but I really like this part of Israel. The landscape is stunning. Mountains, hills, GREEN, water. It's beautiful.

We celebrated our journey to the Galilee with a boat ride, a replica of a boat Jesus may or may not have sailed in.





We also went to some churches and finally to the baptismal site of Jesus, where hoards of evangelicals purchase expensive white robes at the gift shop and walk down into the designated site one at a time to be baptized. Amir also wanted to be baptized but he had to settle with playing with the nibbling fish (which he absolutely loved).