Israel, Part 1

Just returned from 5 days in Israel....such a beautiful country. It was an intense 5 days, as we spent 8-10 hours each day with a guide. He was great. We learned so much and kids did amazingly well considering they had very little freedom for 5 days. Israel will require several blog posts, but I will start with some of my favorite kid moments of the trip.

*Cade loved our tour guide so much. He would run and yell, "Mr. Horn!" each morning when he picked us up. I think Mr. Horn loved Cade, too.

*One day, while walking in Capernaum, I tried to explain to cade that this was where Jesus lived. So sweetly he replied, "Is this Heaven?"

*After seeing so many places that Jesus walked, lived, etc, Cade started saying, "I want to play with Jesus." Chelsea, my little realist, responded rather curtly, "Cade, to play with Jesus you have to be dead. Do you want to be dead?"

*Chelsea's favorite was the Garden of Gethsemane. There, she sat and read us the scriptures from Jesus' last night. Precious.

*Logan was a trooper, trekking around in the stroller and backpack most of the trip.  We also got him a kid backpack with a leash  "freedom cord" before we left. We thought he would hate it, but he loved it and would go get it and ask to put it on. The other 2 kids would fight over who would get to walk the Logan.