Sabbath Rest

The last two days we had free! Totally free - no digging and no touring! Most of us were a bit sad that we didn’t have any touring, but it was nice to have the time off. And we were kind of sad about the no digging, but our muscles needed the rest! It is interesting that Friday and Saturday are our days off here. Saturday is the Sabbath, so everyone needs Friday to prepare for it (I believe that is the idea at least). It is nice though…I like have Friday and Saturday off!

I think we are all getting excited about digging tomorrow though. I am anxious to start the first day of the last week. I know this next week is going to fly by and I want to enjoy every minute that I can!

Anyway, since we were completely free and unstructured we all spent our time in various ways. Since a picture is worth a thousand words I’m going to try to describe our weekend to you through a picture montage! (I will admit some of these pictures were not taken this weekend; they are needed to give you the full understanding of the past few days – I will clarify which were taken previously.)

Many of us had breakfast and dinner on the balcony (this was taken a while ago and doesn’t have anyone in it…opps!!!

Some of us built sandcastles…

At one point we all scrubbed pottery…

Some of us blogged or emailed…

Some of us cleaned up the lab (thanks for sweeping Arny!)…

Some of us napped (this was of me at the site...ok, not napping but close enough!)...
Some of us worked on the technical drawings for the dig (ok, only Andrea did!)…

Most of us worked on pottery picture taking and labeling...

We all had a party in honor of the three people leaving us this weekend (Mike, Linda, and Rachel left…we are all very sad…I couldn’t find pictures of the party so I just put a picture of a balloon…we didn’t have balloons at the party, but you could imagine what it would have been like if we did!!)…

Some of us were plumbers (stupid showers that don’t drain! luckily it was the boys' room and the girls didn't have to deal with it. Not that we couldn't handle it - but the smell was pretty gross!!)…

And some of us sat by the Sea of Galilee (this is just a picture of the Sea)…


Ok…I think that’s it. I hope this helped to give you a feel for our expierences of the last few days. It didn’t cover everything we did, but sort of gives you a rough overview! Thanks for taking the time to read/look over it! Peace!