Jordan day 2

DAY TWO

1. Petra

Kristi in front of the first carved building as we enter...

THE VALLEY OF THE CRESCENT MOON!!!!!
BWAHAHAHA!!!!!!

more pics of this building...

A random door in the rock face

This is me looking unhappy in the hat Dad made me wear

A monkey figurine

Most of the following pictures are just of the beautiful canyon, no description needed.

The moon is still visible..

Kristi climbing the wall

A beautiful carving

An olive tree

Kristi.. again

Jeehee Cho

Our guide says this rock looks like Moby Dick

But from this angle it's an elephant

A flowering plant

Kristi standing in a little passageway

SCORPION!!!!!!!!!!! not sure if it was dead or alive

A carving of a person

And a camel hoof

Me leaning on the beautiful striped walls

A dam , I guess for flash floods

Jordanian Tourist Police

Steps in the wall

So excited you can see it!!

Almost there!!!



Wait for it....

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Da da da, da da da. Da da da da, da da DA DA DA

Da da da da, da da da, da da da da da da da da da da da da.

Me and Dad

everyone standing in awe

Does anyone dare enter?!

Magnificent columns!

Splended carvings!!!



YES THIS IS THE PLACE OF THE CUP OF CHRIST( not really)

More carved buildings

Here is a little Bedouin girl
SO CUTE!!!!!

She comes up to me and grabs the other head phone that we use to listen to the guide (I usually only have it in one ear) Then she asks, "How does it get from there [points to the guide] to here?[ points to headset.]"
I said,

"MAGIC"

Kayla recieving the same fate as me ( if you can't see, the boy is listening in her other headphone.)

Julie rocks the house

Kristi rocks the house


These bottles full of sand are
SO COOL!!!

I even got a video of how he makes them:

TADA!!!! Finished product!!!

AMAZING!!!!!

Here doggie

Camels rock

He's looking at you

A theater (i love theaters)

Dallan climbed pretty high

There's me...

...about to be crushed

I just love this picture. Look how the suns just coming up...

More caves

Those buildings are MASSIVE

Another sun picture

I hope these guys get paid

After all that, we had to climb a
GIANT MOUNTAIN
To get to the
MONASTERY


The way up was too hard i didn't bother taking pictures- I took them on the way down instead.



There it is!!! the Monastery!!!

Kristi

 

Me

 

Me again

Its all too much!!

And now inside the monastery..

Jumping pictures!!! gotta love em!! That's Kristi and Arial

This is Shelby and Meeshell

And now for the way down...

Gorgeous!!

 

Jumping pic

Love it

Ahh.. this is the life..

Kristi got some pics of me on thet rug- just cant find them

It's too beautiful to capture on camera- as most mountain scenes are.

Little beduine kids looking at Meechels camera- she just took a picture of them.

Thats one strong woman

Thousands, millions of stairs

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When we finally reached the grounds, we were treated to a wonderful buffet lunch at the Petra Basin Restaurant.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch/ Indiana Jones castle..

We rode camels, since the students went to Turkey instead of Egypt. (not me though..)

Now that the shadow's out of the way, I can take better pictures.

Dad and Brother Muhlestein, the other religion teacher here

Me and Tashara Muhlestein...

...with our matching hats!! (doesn't she look like a barbie with that face?)

Oh yeah!! We rock!!

After all that, we went back through the canyon, and rode horses to the bus!! (I still have to get those pics from brother Muhlestein)

*****Back on the bus...*****

GO FEET!!!!!!!

2. Shobak Castle

Shobak was basectly this big hill with a bunch of ruins and tunnels.

So I didn't take any pictures. no big deal.

the only thing i could find was a video at the bottom of one of the tunnels... here it is:

It's Meeshell filming Me and Tashara- see if you can guess who is who.......

The Resttop :)

The rest-stop on the way to Amman Hotel was at a zoo.
Ok not really but it was like a zoo. I loved it so much I took a lot of pictures.


Get ready for... 
PLASTIC ANIMAL HEAVEN!!!!! 

Me kissing the elephant- well at least trying to

Tashara getting on the elephant

Me hugging the elephant

Tashara feeding a horse

Me kissing a camel- and succeeding this time.

Tashara trying to get a stubborn camel to move

Tashara slapping a life size horse- well i guess you'd call it a colt.

In Amman, we got the ROYAL APARTMENTS- find out more in Jordan day 3... thank you.

To be continued....