JeruShannon

HOO BOY THIS ONE WILL PROBABLY BE A MESS. There are so many things we did in Galilee and I don't know whether I will be able to keep them all straight but I will try valiantly to let all of you know all of what we did. This will probably be so quick and dirty First: Pre-Galilee On Sunday our free day before we left a bunch of us celebrated our friend Claire's birthday! We went to a fun restaurant, but we also went to Lifta , an abandoned Palestinian village outside West Jerusalem. It was abandoned in the Nakba  and nowadays is a nature preserve. There were a bunch of kids swimming in the nastiest smallest puddle ever and we explored some of the abandoned buildings. Fun, but also sobering. GALILEE JOURNEYS DAY ONE Beit Shean a.k.a. Assassin's Creed: Decapolis Edition Our first stop on our way up to Gal was Beit Shean which is a place much like Jerash . It's where they hung Saul's body after he died. Like Jerash, it was one of the Decap