All Good Things Must Come to an End

The dig has finally reached it’s climactic ending. This morning we finished off this season’s work at area D, our area of the dig. It’s amazing how far we have come over the past 9 days of digging. In some areas we dug down as far as 6 feet, which is quite a lot if you consider how meticulously and slowly we dug each layer.

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We celebrated the dig with a surprise pizza party. Instead of eating the kibbutz food one more time we ate pizza near our cabins and took some time to say our goodbyes to our amazing staff; Ami Mazar, Dr. Mullins, Hai, Uri, Yael, Nava, and all the others. After the pizza party, John from our group tied a loaf of sliced bread to himself and went into the water near the kibbutz just to see how the fish would react. They reacted in a relatively predictable manner, swarming around John eating the bread and nibbling on his skin. It was one more story to add to the repertoire of stories we will tell from this trip.

We will surely miss Israel but we are excited to come home tomorrow. This whole trip has been amazing and will prove to be unforgettable. We all have great stories to tell and experiences that we can share with our friends and families. Great thanks to Dr. Duke, Dr. Mullins, Mandy Kelly, and APU for making this trip possible. I speak for the whole group when I say that this trip has been amazing and life changing. The experience we have shared here in Israel has been invaluable. Thank you so much and please offer this trip to students in the future!

To all who have been following us through this blog, thank you so much. This will be the last post for this trip. This blog will be available for viewing for as long as wordpress allows it. It will not be deleted by us so stop in any time in the future if you want to relive some of the experience or see the pictures again. More pictures will probably be added when we return home so check in for those too.

Thanks again to all! Shalom Out!