Thursday, June 24, 2010

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Monday-we found lots and lots of features today, as we were walking in bedrock fields. Ansen Raney gave a lecture tonight on the Armana letters and the geo-political issues of that time between Egypt and Israel.
Tuesday-today we had to finish up processing all the features from the field, and we found something spectacular!!!! Afterward we went to a local dairy farm. The owner saw us working in the fields while he was bike riding and invited us up. He is from Iraq originally and his parents made Iraqi cheese to sale. He says they only made one kind of cheese and it was called cheese :). Then he and his brothers took over and they now make mozzarella!!! He walked us through his factory showing us every step. It smelled like salt and made my mouth water. At the end of the tour he let us try fresh mozzarella that came straight out of the brine. The 18 of us tore that sucker up!!! There was none left so he opened up some mozzarella balls and we went through three tubs. We also ate about 5 tubs of yogurt, strawberry and tart. We were in cheese heaven after not having it for 2.5 weeks. We were very thankful for his tour and he is very supportive of SWBTS efforts at Tel Gezer.
Wednesday- we had to start walking agricultural fields because if we found anything else we wouldn't have time to process it before the report was due in Jerusalem. We only worked half a day and then came back early to shower. Then we went for a tour of Khierbet Qiyafa which is thought to be biblical Ha Sharaim, in the Elah Valley. There is a dig going on there by Yosie Garfinkel and Hebrew University. They showed us what they have uncovered in the last 3 seasons and in the first two days of their fourth season. This Khierbet was important b/c it was at the entrance to the Kingdom of Judah as its the first major city before you get into the mountains where Hebron, Jerusalem and Bethlehem are. One of the professors is coming Thursday night to give a lecture on the findings and conclusions.
Wednesday night we were treated to pizza and ice cream in Tel Aviv. We drove in and hit 5 o'clock traffic. We ate a place called Iceberg Volcano and it was the best food I have had in a while. Adam and I ate Calamari pizza with cherry tomatoes on it, Three cheese pizza ( blue, mozzarella and something else) with basil leaves on top, and Salami pizza that tasted like pepperoni but better!!!!! Then we got ice cream....oh my word!! I got two scoops, one was dark chocolate and tasted like a cake, the other scoop was toffee. Adam got three scoops, one was bananas and honey ( my new fav), one was pistachio and the last was marscapone with berries!!!!! We were stuffed but still managed to walk down the boardwalk and watch the sunset. There is a military base right off the boardwalk and we watched tons of planes take off and land. We drove back, watched a little of "How Stella got her groove back" and fell asleep happy :).
Oh, but Adam also finished off our pistachio and mocha ice cream in the room ( that boy can eat :).

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