St. George Greek Orthodox Monastery in the Wadi Qelt near the road from Jerusalem to Jericho

A group of us inside Zedekiah's Cave underneath the Old City.

On the rooftops in the Old City of Jerusalem. Both the BYU Jerusalem Center and the Dome of the Rock are in the background.

I have had a very busy week and this last weekend was crazy! Luckily I was able to go explore the city some more on Sunday after our clinical at Makassed. The pictures are kind of out of order (some places mentioned will be in a different post) so hopefully everything makes sense. On Sunday I went and explored Zedekiah's Cave. It started out as a small cave that they used to get stone from to help build various parts of the Old City, turning it into a really big cave. I had so much fun just exploring and climbing all over the cave. We then explored the Old City. We spent most of our time in the Jewish and Armenian quarters, which were absolutely beautiful! We found some metal stairs and decided to go up them even though there was no sign or anything and we ended up on the rooftops! It was probably the best view from the city of the surrounding areas! There were some younger boys playing around up there. We watched them for a while jumping around and doing flips. It was really cool!
Monday, we had our Jericho field trip, which included the St. George Greek Orthodox Monastery and Jericho where we saw the site and some remains of Herod's Winter Palace and Tel Es-Sultan. At Tel Es-Sultan we saw what some consider to be the oldest man-made structure in the world, a tower that make Jericho a place dating back to the Neolithic period. Elisha's Spring was also here which is supposed to be the water of fertility (might have tried a little just because). After the field trip, the nursing students and some others were able to go spend the half the day at Tel-Aviv. We explored Old Jaffa and then ended the day playing in the Mediterranean Sea and watched one of the prettiest sunsets ever (Picture on different post)! Overall, my experience here in Jerusalem is only getting better. I feel like I am learning a ton!