"It feels like we've been walking for three weeks on a constant incline."

Yo.

Today we joked that we were on the Biggest Loser marathon, May Term style. We've walked everywhere!!

We started our day at 7am at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the fourth century, Constantine's mother asked the Christians where Jesus was crucified, and they pointed to this place, where she built a church. It has been rebuilt and is currently shared by the Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Coptic church. There were many icons inside. We were also able to touch the rock that has been said to have been the rock that Jesus' body was laid on after he was taken down from the cross. We were also able to go into the tomb where Jesus was laid.

We then went to the Garden Tomb, which is owned by protestants. There is also some evidence for Jesus' death and burial in this area as well. There was a stark contrast between this and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They were very insistent that people should focus on the actual story and person of Christ, rather than the rocks.

We then walked around the Mount of Olives and saw a few churches, a cemetary, and a place where Jesus taught the disciples the Lord's prayer. They had large plaques of the Lord's Prayer in almost every language.

We also had dinner at the Strickert's tonight. Gloria made us delicious food, and it was really cool to talk to people who were connected to Wartburg so closely and now are living in Jerusalem.

That's essentially everything. I don't want to tell absolutely everything on the blog...I don't want to deprive people of stories! (And there are some great stories.)

Type at ya later!