Eilat!

Sunday was our free day and almost every student piled on the buses (I will never want to ride buses again after this semester!) to make our way south to Eilat! This is a tourist town at the southern-most tip of Israel bordering the RED SEA!!! We have been planning this activity since the beginning and it was a wonderful day. There were some mix ups with the people there and someone forgot to mention us that we needed our National Park cards to get to the spot we actually wanted to go to. But that was ok, everyone had a really positive attitude and we just went to a different beach instead. This meant the snorkeling was not as cool because we didn't have the coral reefs to explore, but I bet that just meant less people getting cut up. The day was AWESOME! I've never been snorkeling before, so seeing any fish at all was spectacular! 

Yeah, that's the RED SEA....

Me, Megan, and Megan. Something funny is that Megan is also my middle name. We're so cool! And behind us...those mountains are JORDANIAN MOUNTAINS. Honestly we could've swam to Jordan. Except that'd we'd be deported or something probably...

Happy!!

There are a few fish below us, but this isn't where we snorkeled. This is by the shore. We went deeper and saw some cool fish.

After we spent about 4 hours on the beach snorkeling and swimming and having a grand ol' time, we all went into the city of Eilat. Honestly the only thing to do was explore their mall. It felt like home, and the nice thing was that we didn't have street vendors running out at us asking us if we were Mormons and if we wanted to buy anything. That will be nice about being home. But it was weird walking through the mall in our Chacos and white v-necks and baggy pants...we're all going to completely bring the style back home. And don't forget the fanny packs too.

C'est vrai :)

Eilat!

Israel does make some pretty attractive men

Jordan across the sea! Seriously, it's great here because it is like the 4 corners of nations, not states. We were in Israel. Jordan was across the sea. Saudi Arabia was across the same sea. We are a matter of minutes from the Egyptian border. So neat.

OH, YES!! Except not really haha

Cow kibbutz again! We love this place! We get good food and ice cream, and then I get chocolate milk that is super super good. We have been there twice now and I would love to go again.

Eilat was so much fun! I am becoming less and less of a fan of long bus rides, mostly because it's really hard to fall asleep when the people around you and laughing uproariously. But that's ok. I guess I just like to sleep and some people not so much. I must be weird haha.