Sabbath in the kubbitz is celebrated from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. We have an extra-nice dinner Friday night at the dining hall, no breakfast served on Saturday morning, lunch is served and then no dinner. We buy food in the local mini-market to feed ourselves breakfast and dinner. The kubbitz gives us paper money printed on a computer that is worth 60 sheckles to use (about $30 each). It is sort of like shopping in a 7-11 or a Circle K.
Daniel was craving fried eggs. He must have eaten 100 hard boiled eggs since we've been here...there is no other choice when it comes to eggs. I made him some for dinner tonight.
We actually took a whole day off from walking, hiking, sightseeing, digging, mosaicing etc... and only slept, read, and swam in the Sea of Galilee for about an hour this afternoon. Dr. Schuler wanted Dan to take it easy for one day this week, after all it was good for our God? Really, he said, in passing, that all of the touring was taking a toll on the group. He is and was concerned about Dan.
Almost all of the digging is finished for this season. Daniel asked if he could work in the cistern tomorrow and Dr. Schuler agreed. He will be wearing a hardhat because it is so far down. I will be finishing up on the restoration of the mosaic #2 and going back to do some edges that have broken down due to someone stepping on it on mosaic #1.
This coming week will be all about cleaning up for final pictures and organizing for next year. We were asked to postpone our swimming time each afternoon so we could do "odd jobs" that need to be done.
Tomorrow starts our work week. After work at 2:00 the Haifa team is travelling to Nimrod's Castle. It is a Midevial castle and Dr. Schuler says it is worth seeing. We won't get back until about 8:00, but I think Daniel and I are going. Dinner will be included and I think we can rest on the bus ride home. It will be exciting to see something that is from a different era than the Byzantine era.
Here is a picture from the internet of the type of gecko on our ceiling and the one I caught in the bathroom :) CUTE
Other stuff...
We have grown used to people with guns walking around in crowds of people???
We had an armed guard in Jordon that travelled with us on the bus and at all sites.
One dinar (Jordanian money) = about 1 1/2 dollars
One sheckel (Israeli money) = about 30 cents
All of the pottery sherds collected on Hippos except rims, handles, bases (called diagnostics) will be returned to the site and buried.
Many mornings we can hear artillilary practice at the site.
Regular flavored Pringles are put on the shelf at the mini-market and are gone that same afternoon. I guess it reminds us of the junk food back home.
They call the public restroom a w.c. here just like in Europe (water closet)
Don't forget to look at Jess' and Jake's pages from yesterday...they have pict's and are great!
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