Day 10, again, was a bit slower paced, and we spent longer at our two destinations with more hiking involved. Thankfully, I was feeling a bit better this day because we did some walking. I think I ended up with north of 14.000 steps. These two sites were worth the effort though, as everything was. Today we hiked Tel Dan and Caesarea Phillipi. Very cool. Tonight was our first night staying at the kibbutz as well, which was very nice.
Tiny balcony, but an OK view.
I had a picture in my mind of a place to stay at a kibbutz more like a youth hostel. Nope. Just like a hotel. Very nice dining hall, even if they did put us Gentiles in the corner. : )
A few other things from today I thought I would include. At Tel Dan we saw a scaly friend, which Evan was also enamored with…he was loving the animal creatures.
He was pretty cool, although unlike Evan, I did NOT want to hold him.
Those of you that know me well, know that I have a love for fuzzy socks. I am not the only one…these were in the gift shop at Caesarea Phillipi. They reminded me of a certain group that knows of my love of the fuzzy socks…you know who you are…
I also took a screen shot of my position on my map when we were hiking around Caesarea Phillipi. Awfully close to Syria and Lebanon way on up in the Golan Heights. Didn’t know that would happen! Glad we got to see it though.
One of the highlights was also actually McDonalds. While not normally a favorite of mine, it was tasting really really good round about Day 10. There was no cheese on the Big Mac, they don’t do cheese with meat normally, but it was still really yummy. They have better burgers than we do. Evan got a huge burger.
Another treat we were introduced to by both guides…a food that they said every 2 year old in Israel knows and loves…Bambas. The best way I can describe what they taste like is peanut butter flavored Cheetos. Oh ya, they’re good. We heard you can get them at Trader Joe’s. We’ll be needing to check that out, because they are darn tasty!
All the kiddos loved them, adults too!
OK, only two lengthy stops today, Tel Dan is first.