The Dead Sea. Been there, floated that.

After Masada, we took the bus over to the dead sea.  It's 1300 feet below sea level, the lowest point on earth.  Did you read that right?  I floated on the lowest point on planet Earth.  Every day 6 million tons of water evaporate off of this salty body of water.  I have never seen so much salt in my life.  The rocks on the side looked as if they were covered in snow from all the salt coated on.  We stripped down to our swimsuits and started walking out into the famous slimy water.  What a weird experience to bounce around without touching anything...and to literally just float. 

ClaireStein, Matt, me, and Heidi just floating around in the dead sea..

THEN THE CANNIBALS CAME OUT...

We swam around a bend and got out and started covering ourselves in the mud.  It was von rankus smelly and we loved it.  We looked like scary savages from a lost tribe.  It was so dang fun.

When I first showed up, I immediately had people start to cover me in the famous, smelly mud.  Ha.  I look not too happy in this picture... But I definitely was.  It was just my at first unsure face...

The boys got a little Cougar pride and took a BYU body picture...Exclamation included.

 

Yep.  Savage.

A bunch of savage females..

Sara concentrating on trying to get the mud out of her head...

AFTER THE DEAD SEA....

We hiked to another waterfall.  A place where David and his army hid from Saul...

    

AND THEN AFTER THAT.....

We went to the place where the dead sea scrolls were written....Qumran.  What a good day.

If you click on the picture you can see it bigger.  But the cave behind me is where they hid some of the scrolls.

   A few of my favorite people and I.  Katie Rencher, Matt, Kelly, and Sam.  The cave is behind us...where they were hidden.  As well as in the picture above.

Tuning in on different high class headphones to listen to Brother Draper talk about the sea scrolls..  and laughing at the same time. 

What a good day for field trips.  Days are so much longer here because we do so much.  I'm feeling really sad to leave and go back to normal every day life.  Life is fantastic.