Taba and the Red Sea, Sea of Galilee, Gideon Spring and Nazareth

Red Sea in Taba Egypt, Sea of Galilee and visits in Israel
     We left the cruise ship and flew to Taba on a chartered plane.  It has been fun on this trip because we have experienced many modes of travel.  We have taken a commercial plane, bus, horse carriage, motor boat, small fishing boat, chartered plane and lots more bus rides.  It was interesting going through the traffic in Egypt in a horse carriage.  It was CRAZY and I have to admit a little scary.  It is crazy how people drive and there are no lines in the roads.  Everyone honks their horns and are crowding all over the road.
     When we arrived off the chartered plane we took a bus ride through a rocky desolate area and then arrived to a beautiful resort by the Red Sea.  There we relaxed and swan in the Red Sea and went on the water slides at the resort.  We had a wonderful presentation by Elder Madsen. He is a spiritual giant and we all love to listen to him.  He spoke alot from the scriptures and he makes all of it come to life.
     We then got up very early and I already wrote about our trip to Masada.  We also stopped and took pictures of the Qumron Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  We had a long bus ride on Friday getting to our hotel on the Sea of Galilee.
      We awoke to a beautiful view of the Sea of Galilee.  We walked over to the boat dock from our hotel and boarded the boat and went out on the Sea.   Brother Madsen gave a wonderful talk on the life of Jesus and when he was out on the Sea and the storm came.  He had asked me to lead everyone and sing "Master the Tempest is Raging".  It was a very special experience.  I love the group of people we are with.  They are very wonderful and we enjoying our time with them.  There is a wide variety and that makes it really fun.  The food is amazing and that is good and bad:).  Dad and I are going to have to get back to our eating less diet but for now we are just enjoying all the different foods from the different areas.
     The then went to Gideon Springs and went to a restaurant and had Israeli Falafel.  It is a real pita bread with chick peas, and all kinds of salads to go with it.  It was very authentic in a little place along the road that the tour guide highly recommended.  We went up to Mt Karmel from there.  That is where Elijah beat the priests of Bael.  This is a great story but I will recount it later as my internet is about to run out.
     Then we went to a recreation of a Nazareth Village at the time of Christ.  It was very interesting and really helped us feel the way life would have been for the young Christ in his home and village.  We then drove up to the precipice where it is thought that the Jewish leaders of Nazareth tried to kill Christ for "blasphemy" by throwing Him over a Cliff.  Luke 4 is the reference.  This was a beautiful high mountain that you could see all around.  It was amazing and Brother Madsen really brought the spirit.  I will write more about this later as well.  Sorry for any words with errors.