Day one. Our adventure was set to begin at 8:00 AM, but we have been beset by downfalls. Tyson and I hiked up the King David street to find budget, our call rental place. Upon our arrival we found an uncomfortable seen of a man talking about damage done to his rental car. When the woman behind the counter finished with the one fortune in patron, she turned to Ty and I and said, “can I help you? “ yes” Tyson replied. “ we have a car reservation." “ OK, how old are you? “ 21 “ space "we don't read to you. You must be 24.“… oh no… so sadly we walked back to school. After much deliberation we decided to find another place that would rent to us. Finally, finding a Hertz that would give us a car, without insurance mind you, regret the tightly compact Hyundai GETZ “fun” on the back, although we did not accomplish this before listening to a guy complain and make the same for our radio five times, we hit the road. Our first stop on our trip, after praying and finding our way out of the city of Jerusalem, by the grace of God, we took the Assent of Adomimme, was check point. We were asked for our passports and only had two with us, and the woman checking us did not know much English… so we had to pull over for investigation. We gave our identification and the passports we had to the two men with guns, and Tyson started some small talk about Jacksonville. It went something like this. “ I have family of their "" it's nice, you should go. " eventually this conversation acted like a password because we were released to continue our travels. Surviving nearly getting deported we climbed the hills closer to Galilee and mount Meron. Once we get past the sea itself we decided to stop for a nice lunch of peanut butter and jelly along with whatever other wonders George had prepared for this. We pulled all into a force to delay (yes they were real trees I am interested), peed as a body, and snagged a picnic table. Pulling out the orange bag with the white bag in it, Tyson opened it to the words “this is a” . Cherries? Pounds and pounds of cherries. Gooey, read, face, sugary cherries. We laugh and really hard, on as we had no food for the weekend aside from these charities. We all congratulated John at grabbing the cherries from the fridge (although it wasn’t really his fault as he asked George and George said have a great weekend guys). So we called professor Cindy, she was no help and school cannot offer us any aid. So in the closest gas station we looked for food. We needed a grocery store. A lady from Canada points as the direction of a town near by vut warns us that they will be closing for Shabbat. So we raced off only to find a maze of a town with only one way streets. After exploring for quite a while we stumbled upon, again by the grace of God, a grocery store we get inside only to find, due to Shabat left in the 40 bread containers. Sadly we purchase peanut butter, nutella, rice cakes which were on sale, and hot dogs. I also bought some dates and two apples. Oh, and some peanuts. They closed for Shabat just as we left. After he had quick lunch, we headed, finally, to the mountain. it was super sweet. After a half-hour climb we made it to a sweet lookout point and got some sweet pictures. From there we went and found a campsite, an Israeli military base on top of the mountain, and explored farther. When we finally set up our campsite, it was almost dark. As we lit our campfire, darkness was upon us. We didn’t start the fire for about 30 minutes due to our lack of skillz. Finally it was started and we cooked our chicken dogs. I think John might have eaten 20. There were 3 left and I threw them at John telling him to get rid of them. He said no and threw them back. I replied, “I wash my hands of this”. And went to bed. It was 7:30. The rest of the guys were in bed by 9 and we slept. 5 of us, in a 3 man tent with our bags in the 2 person across from us. At 2 am I awoke to a sound which I thought was Willie Snoring. It wasn’t. I looked over at Tyson and John and Willie and John leaned over and said, “There is a bear outside our tent.” After I woke up Josh, we heard more growling and snorting… and decided it was not a bear, rather it was a wild boar, which can be equally dangerous. We listened and counted 5 boar at least with one that was huge with a deep rumbling voice. When we thought they had left, we were about to go outside when we hear more of the same, and get terrified haha. Finally, after the big one sniffed our tent and nuzzled up to Johns leg, they left. We all went outside to pee, only to find out hotdogs gone with the wrapper covered in saliva. Never again will I make that mistake. The next morning we read the Bible and hiked the rest of the mountain, then went to the Hexagon pools which was sweet. Oh we also put up will’s flag which we have a video of. Check it out, its sweet. Then we spent the night after dinner on the shore of the Sea of Galilee watching the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. It was an amazing weekend I will never forget, to say the least.
here are some pictures for you.
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