Happy 38th anniversary to the love of my life and my best friend, Lynda. This is one day, I truly wish I was home!
Unbelievable to think that two weeks have evaporated and there is only one more long walk to Area F! I do have to admit that the walk up is getting easier...guess I'm getting in better shape and I still do "choose rockets" even as we had one siren go off and we again used the Bronze Age and Iron Age for cover...we heard the boom a few miles away.
Today we didn't dig anything new, instead of trowels we used brushes and cleaned up our areas so that they could be photographed and protected for next year. The volunteers received a very nice memento from the staff...it will hold a very special place on my desk.
We ended our time with Dr. Jeff taking down the flag, while humming the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean, the pirate flag was retired, so was my archaeological experience at Tell Es-Safi. This has been a blessed time of work, learning, and a little stress!
The taxi came at 2:00 and I was at the Eden Hotel in Tel Aviv a little over an hour later...my room is small, but very comfortable! Since I didn't have a time to shower before we left the kibbutz, that was first on the list...the fine dust from Safi is really nasty. Since I'm only a couple of blocks from the beaches I wandered there and had a great burger at a beach cafe called the Banana Beach...they also have this lemonade with mint leaves is awesome! In Jerusalem I had this, and it was kinda like a slushy with mint leaves...this was squeezed lemonade...I'll be buying some mint leaves when I get home....wonder how Caribou Coffee with mint leaves will taste?
In the evening I tried to Skype with Lynda in Montane...bad connections...sorry. Used FaceTime with Joyanne which was fun! Watched some Fox News on the tv and I think I fell asleep about 9 p.m. And didn't wake until after 6 a.m. Much needed rest! After breakfast tomorrow I'll desire what I'll do on Saturday.
Unbelievable to think that two weeks have evaporated and there is only one more long walk to Area F! I do have to admit that the walk up is getting easier...guess I'm getting in better shape and I still do "choose rockets" even as we had one siren go off and we again used the Bronze Age and Iron Age for cover...we heard the boom a few miles away.
Today we didn't dig anything new, instead of trowels we used brushes and cleaned up our areas so that they could be photographed and protected for next year. The volunteers received a very nice memento from the staff...it will hold a very special place on my desk.
We ended our time with Dr. Jeff taking down the flag, while humming the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean, the pirate flag was retired, so was my archaeological experience at Tell Es-Safi. This has been a blessed time of work, learning, and a little stress!
The taxi came at 2:00 and I was at the Eden Hotel in Tel Aviv a little over an hour later...my room is small, but very comfortable! Since I didn't have a time to shower before we left the kibbutz, that was first on the list...the fine dust from Safi is really nasty. Since I'm only a couple of blocks from the beaches I wandered there and had a great burger at a beach cafe called the Banana Beach...they also have this lemonade with mint leaves is awesome! In Jerusalem I had this, and it was kinda like a slushy with mint leaves...this was squeezed lemonade...I'll be buying some mint leaves when I get home....wonder how Caribou Coffee with mint leaves will taste?
In the evening I tried to Skype with Lynda in Montane...bad connections...sorry. Used FaceTime with Joyanne which was fun! Watched some Fox News on the tv and I think I fell asleep about 9 p.m. And didn't wake until after 6 a.m. Much needed rest! After breakfast tomorrow I'll desire what I'll do on Saturday.
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