Almost Done...

We've arrived in the Holy Land. Petra was unbelievable yesterday... really quite cool. And to top it off, we ran into our roommate Jay for the second time on this trip. Out of nowhere! Once in Istanbul, and once at the top of a mountain in Petra. Pretty ridonk. That same night we crossed into Israel and stayed in Eilat, a resort town on the Red Sea. Unfortunately we got there too late to do any swimming or sunbathing, and it was the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day here, so everything was shut down, but it was still fun. We got up early this morning for a 7 AM bus to Jerusalem, and Casey was kind enough to meet us at the bus station. We were originally planning to go to the Sea of Galilee this afternoon, but it's another five or six hours on a bus altogether and, quite frankly, we're getting a little sick of buses. We're gonna wander around the old city now instead. I get my mom at the airport tomorrow, and Peter and Matt leave on Saturday to go back to Cairo. I won't go back until Sunday though. It's been an unimaginably crazy trip.