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Oh digging oh digging, I finally get a break from you. Well technically I had one last week, but we went straight from digging to cleaning up to Jerusalem where we were "running where Jesus walked," compliments of Dr. Schuler for the quote, and Andrea has a pretty funny picture to go with it. Today was pretty interesting. We dug for awhile, ate breakfast, dug a little more and then took a tour of the North West church that the Polish team is working on. After that it was back to more digging but it went fairly quickly. I didn't do any digging per say but I did extract my humungo pot with the help of Glenn. This thing is HUGE, and we found 2 possibly 3 more pots inside and the craziest thing I found inside was a 1/2 intact eggshell at the bottom. I mean seriously, who finds an eggshell at the bottom of some really old pot in a church that has gone through and earthquake and numerous occupations...weird, but interesting, but really just crazy weird.

Oh and a funny story for today. My parents send me this email entitled "a number of concerns" and they talk about Hippos and the bombing and if I'm eating enough and if I have enough money, but one of their concerns is "Are you using spell check---I know you're tired and typing fast, but some errors are glaring." Yes mom and dad, I'm making fun of you. And I apologize to all you readers who have to read through my atrocious spelling errors.

Oh, sad story of the day, my camera was not there when I went up this morning which means someone was snooping around last night after we were done digging and took my camera. Luckily I had transferred off all of my pictures and I'm going to Tiberias this weekend so hopefully I'll be able to get a cheap one to finish out the trip.

I also think it's funny that I have just used the interjection "oh" to start my last 3 paragraphs. Now that is some poor writing, but I will let it stand because I am amused because I'm so exhausted.

The crazy Canadians are leaving tomorrow morning at 5:45 am so we will get up to see them off and then I am marching my butt right back to bed to sleep until 8:00 to catch the 9am bus for Tiberias. I will miss those crazy Canadians and hopefully they will miss this rabble rousing, feisty american :)

Some of you have commented on how my blogs are not as sarcastic or cynical as I am in real life. I think I'm so exhausted that all the sarcasm and cynicism have dried up for now. That and I'm being forced to blog, though Dr. Schuler claims that I would use the internet if it were here anyway...but I still contend that I would use it far far less...he thinks I'm dependant...I'll let him keep his illusions.

Here's another "OH" for you. If any of you read Stephanie Randolph's blog you will see that she just had a "first time" for not showering for 3 days straight when we were in Jerusalem. I was a very large supporter of this. But I will have you know that I also reached a "first time" I believe. Today marks the 4th day in a row that I have showered. It is quite impressive. I probably sink less.

I think that's all I've got for now.