Today is our final day. We are sitting right now in our hotel lobby waiting for our dinner celebration. After dinner we will ride the bus with our driver, Mohammed, to Ben Gurion Airport at 8:00 p.m. Our flight leaves at midnight Israeli time and we are due back to JFK Airport at 6:30 a.m. EST.
It has been another amazing day with a visit to Masada the zealot stronghold where finally 950 plus Jews were killed by one another before the final zealot fell on his own sword. They would rather die than be taken and enslaved by the Romans. Two women and three children were spared by their son/husband/father and when found by the Romans were released because of heroism the zealots showed.
After Masada we went to Qumran the site of the Dead Sea scrolls. This too was an amazing place and has been well preserved.
Our last visit of the day and the trip was the opportunity to visit a public beach on the Dead Sea and the chance to float and slather oneself with the mud (it cleanses your pores actually and makes your skin feel silky smooth afterwards).
This truly has been the trip of a lifetime and while I'm ready to come home I would hope I could return again. Bev wholeheartedly agrees. We've enjoyed ourselves immensely and have been blessed. Praise be to God for all his blessings!
Salaam, Shalom, Peace!
That is a good color on you both- Dead Sea Grey! Love- Kirsten
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