Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

This week has been pretty exciting so far. We are finding features left and right. That is really all I can say right now, for the same reasons as last year. However, ask us when we get home and we would love to tell you about our Tel Gezer findings. Our days have been full of walking, finding features, processing them which requires drawing the feature, measuring it and photographing it. That all happens after we clean it up though. Monday and Tuesday we mainly walked orchards which is nice b/c you get partial shade and you get to "sample" Israeli agriculture. Can I just tell you that I have tasted the best grapes ever here? Today we mainly walked through weeds up to our heads, dodging spiders the size of our heads and making sounds so that the snakes would run!!!! At first it was a little overwhelming but then when you make a find its all worth it!! Break time is sooo heavenly too! We find the shade of a large tree, eat our snack and then nap for about 15 mintues. I have fallen asleep on the hard ground with bugs crawling on me, sweat dripping and helicopters flying over. I am pretty sure that Adam owes me a chick flick when we get back home :).

Every afternoon this week Adam and I have gone to the pool for some swimming, laying out and reading. The pool feels sooo good and unlike last year there has only been one or two families there sharing it with us. After the pool we go back to our room and lounge around while we take showers and do some laundry. We get Fox Movies here in English so we have watched Dancing with Wolves and The Skulls so far. Its nice to just rest and cuddle ;). From there we come to the Lobby and write on the blog and check our email. After that is either a lecture or working on locus sheets before dinner. After dinner we normally go straight to bed...a habit that I could easily take back to the states with me.

Hope all our enjoying our blog thus far. The Israel sun that we knew last summer has come out again and we sweat from sunrise to sundown. We are planning some neat things for this weekend and I'm really glad that Adam and I have been able to see new things this year.

The biggest thing we are looking forward to though is swimming in the Dead Sea...last year we said we could have floated in there all day long....this year we hope to at least stay in an hour or so!!!!!!