The Southerners Travel North

No tour of Israel is complete without a trip to the Galilee region so we all went up to Galilee to spend a couple days. Our first stop was Megiddo. While unable to walk down into the water supply tunnel because of repairs, we were able to see the rest of the Tel. The weather was a little damp, but thankfully, it held off the whole time we were there.

Capernaum was on our list of places to visit. I had never been there before. We had actually stopped there on our last visit to the Galilee, but since we had been unaware of the no shorts or capris dress code, we had to postpone our visit for another time. It is a beautiful garden area with ruins of the town's synagogue as well as houses. The ruins of the town that still exist look like a raised floor plan of the town. You can clearly see the rooms of the houses, the doorways, and the street to which the door open up. The modern church whose large windows overlook the Sea hangs like a flying saucer over the ruins of what is believe to be Peter's house and the meeting place of the early church. The octagonal shape of the interior room and its surrounding layers marks it as an early Christian building. The glass bottom center of the new church looks directly into the inner room of the house below it.

We spent the night in a hotel/hostel in the Galilee mountains where it was so beautiful. Darren had switched our Galilee trip from Mon/Tues to Thurs/Fri so that I could go with them because I had already committed to babysitting Monday night. It was really nice of him, but so as not to appear too nice, he spent the rest of the week looking for the verse in Proverbs (Prov 29:21) that says, "He who pampers his slave from childhood will in the end find him to be a son!" He's too late to start worrying about that now, the damage is already done!