Jordan and Tel Aviv

So here it goes this is really long but i am making up for a week of awesome things that i did on my trip to Jordan. The first thing that we did in Jordan was we went to Petra. Petra for those of you that are wondering is where they filmed the last part of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That made Petra really famous but there is a lot more there than just that. I have way too many pictures so i just put up a couple of them. Before you get to the treasury that is in Indiana Jones you walk through this canyon with beautiful colored rocks surrounding you. The pictures don't do it justice. They were amazing shades of red and purple and somtimes yellow and white.

Here is the moment you were waiting for. Cue Indiana Jones theme music. This is the treasury. It was awesome because you are walking through the canyon like the picture before and all of a sudden it opens up and there it is!

This picture might look like it is the same picture as up above but it isn't. We climbed 852 stairs up the mountain side to get to this. It was worth it though. The hike up was beautiful and the lookout a little ways from this was gorgeous. If you can't tell we are spelling Jordan. I am the letter d.

Here is one of the views from the look out that i talked about. I just couldn't get over how pretty it was!

Here is a picture of me in the canyon down below the mountain just to give you another look at all the different colors of rocks. I wish you could have been there. Like i said the pictures don't give it justice. It was absolutely beautiful!

After going to Petra the next big thing that we did was go to Jerash which is where the ruins of an ancient Roman city are. I loved it there. I thought it was beautiful!! To start off my Jerash picture the one below shows me in the ancient arena where the Roman citizens would come to watch chariot races and gladiator fights etc. i am standing right in the middle of the arena.

Here we are at the top of the huge amphitheater. It was actually kind of funny because while we were there they brought out these people that played the bag pipes for us. While they were playing some people started doing the congo. So here we have some American people doing the Congo to Irish bagpipes in a Roman amphitheater that is located in Jordan. As you can see though from the picture it was pretty impressive.

Around the bottom of the amphitheater they had almost like an ancient microphone system. There were these circles that went along the entire bottom of the amphitheater. someone could go whisper in one on the other end and we would still be able to here it on our end. I thought it was pretty cool. In this picture is me and Marianne.

i loved all the rocks amongst the green. It was so beautiful!

Here i am again. Its not by anthing in particular but i thought it made for a good picture.

After we toured around Jerash there was a Roman show that we went to. It was pretty cheesy but i really liked it. It was a lot of fun . Here we are sitting on the actual seats that the Roman citizens themselves sat on when watching the Chariot races and the gladiator fights. During the gladiator fights we got to determine whether or not they died. It was thumbs up if you wanted them to live and thumbs sideways if you wanted them to die. This is how it actually worked back in the roman times when they actually did have the gladiator fights.

After the show was over we got to go down and take pictures with all the people from the show. It was a lot of fun!! Here i am with one of the chariot drivers.

He we are pretending like they are killing us. Everytime i look at this picture i laugh. I think its so funny!!!

Me and my roommate Bre are by the announcer of the Roman show. He was by far the cutest guy in the show.

Right as we were walking out after taking pictures i saw a helmet sitting there so i asked if i could put it on. I was trying to look really fierce but i think i just came across as goofy. :) Don't you love how the helmet is covering up my eyes!!! LOL!!