Israel Museum & Zuni's

One of the assignments for our Ancient Near Eastern Studies class is to visit the Israel Museum and see a four page checklist worth of artifacts. I was thinking it was going to be a dreadful assignment, but we made a day of it and it was really, really fun. The Israel Museum is cool, it's organized perfectly.

We saw a large, to scale, model of Jerusalem during the second temple period, the Dead Sea scrolls, a piece of one of the Lachish letters, swords, silver hoards that would have been used for buying and selling during the time of Lehi, in-scripted stones from the time of David, artifacts from the time of Herod and Christ, stone altars with four horns... etc.

We then moved on and saw more European, contemporary and modern things: Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh and Pollock and Warhol and many many others.

I liked both. It was refreshing to see these paintings after looking at artifact after artifact. BUT... I tried to soak it all in and realize how AmAzing it is to lay eyes on everything I was looking at. Seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls was definitely a highlight. We already plan to come back when we've learned about a lot more of things we saw.

When we had exhausted ourselves, and of course... taken a photo on the Hebrew LOVE statue in the Art Garden...

We headed to ZUNI'S in West J-ru for a CHEESEBURGER! In Turkey, Bro. Harper told us that it was the best place... the Ludlow's had also mentioned it. After eating the food that made me feel so miserable in Turkey, a cheeseburger was on the top of my list. It was SO good! It was worth all twenty dollars. Made my day, it's amazing what a little taste of home can do to satisfy a person!