UPDATE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Dear friends. I wrote this post the night before I went to Jordan. After spending a fair amount of time on this, about five minutes before I was about to post it, the internet at the Jerusalem Center decided to crash. It was also the time when I was going to e-mail everyone back that I hadn't e-mailed back yet. Anyway, the moral of the story is that I couldn't do that before I went to Jordan. But now I'm back from Jordan (it was amazing, by the way), and it'll take me a few days to get that blog post up. So for now I'll post what I was going to before I left! Here it is, everyone. Enjoy!

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I'm going to Jordan tomorrow but didn't want to leave you guys without an update before then, because I'll have so much to add afterwards! So here's a quick update that touches a little but on everything but doesn't do anything justice. Since I last updated, I have:

Explored (and played with long exposure) in the Tomb of the Prophets. This place was really cool because they gave us candles to explore the tombs! Best half a shekel (about 15 centers) I've ever spent. We only had a few minutes to play with long exposure because it was closing, but this was the best picture we got. (BYUJC PRIDE!)

A picture of myself with my candle in the Tomb of the Prophets:

Watched fantastic sunsets. My friend Amber had the fantastic idea to start "The Sunset Club." My favorite picture I took was of my friend Ashley. It's a simple silhouette photo but I just love it.

Visited various areas in the Shephelah. This included visiting the Valley of Elah, where David slew Goliath. It was an all-day field trip, and we visited so much more than that, as well. I just loved it all. But here is a picture of my friend Becca and me slingling stones at each other in the Valley of Elah, using the type of sling David would have used.

My friend Emily's scriptures and sling in the Valley of Elah.

Trekked through Hezekiah's Tunnel! This was one of my favorite activities so far. We sang songs like, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Lead Kindly, Light" while we were walking through and it sounded awesome. It was just an all-around awesome experience.

The tunnel was a little small for me (I was bending my knees quite a bit in this picture), but it was perfectly Becca-sized! (Becca is about 5'1").

Trying to get the water in the picture:

Steph, I took this picture just for you, so you had better see it. It's me doing yoga outside Hezekiah's tunnel. My friend Dallin was apparently very concerned I was going to fall. (Not that he has anything to base that fear on....*cough*....)

I don't know what I like about this picture of Meeshell and me. It's kind of a weird picture of me. BUT. I'm posting it anyway because I like it. Haha.

Gone on a field trip to the Partition Wall. It's not even particularly far away, but we took a field trip to this. I was feeling rather ill this day, but the wall had tons of graffiti on it, so I took a picture. The graffiti was in English, because English-speakers are the target audience. This was my favorite quote on the wall.

Wandered through the Tomb of the Kings. There's something about tombs in Jerusalem. They're neat. Here's a nice, heartwarming picture of me lying down in one:

So that's that! It's a quick summary of what we've done in the past few weeks. We've done so much more, but that's a general catch-up for you! I need to go to bed, because I leave for JORDAN in 5 hours! Exciting! So, while I'm gone, enjoy this last picture of me being happy, because I was exploring the Old City:

I love you guys. Have a fantastic week!