Olive you. (part 2)

Whew. What a craaaaaaaazzzzzzzzy day Monday was.

Sunday was our Eilat trip, which in itself was a crazy day. (See blog about that here.) Then after getting home at 10 or so and then getting all ready for bed, we didn't get to sleep until approx. 11. Except it was really later than that.

Then Monday, we had a field trip to go on. Which involved us waking up super early. Let's just say we were exhausted.

BUT the field trip was the bomb. Hezekiah's tunnel and the City of David. Soo swell. Probs my favorite field trip of all of them... thus far anyway...

We did Hezekiah's Tunnel and we saw the ancient rocks, obvi. And, Brother Harper was sick so Brother Ludlow was our leader. And the kids are still out of school so his whole family joined us! :) Quality bonding time with the Ludlows. :)

Before watching our super exciting 3D Movie about the City of David: Where it all began....

dun dun dun.

Bathsheba's rooftop. Super Scandalous.

Preparing for the tunnel! (Me, Charlotte, Katie, Katie).

In the super fun tunnel! :) But really, it was supes fun.

Standard after tunnel pose. With The Suze and The Lottie.

The Group. More or less.

We then got back to the Center for lunch-bunch and then after that, we got to make our olive oil! Woot.

That was super exciting. We first mashed up the olives and then smashed out all their oil. And we did it on biblical presses. And I wish I had some cool pictures to show you but my camera died pretty soon after we got there and Nicole didn't bring one. Plus, we didn't really do all that much to contribute. hahaha but here is one!

Nicole, Me, Charlotte, Suzy, Cali. :)

And our olive oil has been sitting outside separating for the past week. It's going to be exciting to see our final product. I will post about that in part three. hahaha

Monday was also the day that Josh (Ludlow) and I decided to get married. Let me tell you, it was quite the day.

And that's a wrap.

Olive you. (part 1)

While we were in Turkey, Jerusalem got it's first rain of the season. And you know what that means!

Olive Oil Making! :)

Yesterday, we headed out on the grounds to pick our lovely olives off our 60+ trees on the property. It was quite the task, let me tell you. We had to fill a large tub of all the olives and we only got partway. Like 2/3 of the way done. Mostly because all the olives are WAYYY up in the tree which makes things difficult.

Adam and I... obviously matching on purpose.

So we went back today and did some but lots of students didn't feel like it was a priority so they didn't come. Apparently when people give you amazing opportunities to do something completely different that what you could ever possibly do again, it's nice to not participate. So while there were more than 90 people helping pick olives yesterday, today included about 10. And that is not an exaggeration. Ooooooh well. Some people just need to be selfish. That's fine. (end rant).

Very candid shot.

Anyway, haha today it was fun because we also explored our vineyards! I don't know why we don't make wine (or grape honey!). It sounds like a wonderful idea.

Vineyard! Woot.

Yesterday, they told us to try an olive if we wanted and Lindsay and I did... definitely the worst thing I've ever tasted. haha

Today, AnnaLeah and I decided to eat some of the grapes fresh off the vine.... Divine. :)

Overall, olive picking was pretty neat-o.

Monday, after our field trip, we are pressing them! This should be exciting! :)

That post will come, my friends. i.e. wait just a couple more days!