Today we did a lot of driving. We started at the Mediterranean Sea near the Lebanon boarder. We took the cable car down to the grottos (sea caves) and got splashed as the big waves came crashing against the limestone. Last night, we had a big thunder and lightening storm. All day today it was still windy, rainy, and humid but I really noticed it while we were at the sea.
All day, we drove along the Lebanon boarder through thick fog and pouring rain. At one point Chaim stopped the van on the side of the highway and had us all get out. He had us follow him to a barbed wire fence which he cut and had us walk through. We walked through a lot of bushes, passed a lot of cow dung, and brought us to what is supposedly the first sugar press (built during the Crusader Period).
We also stopped at a mall to visit a McDonalds to see what the menu looks like here. Even at McDonalds everything here is Kosher. After that, we drove to Mt. Hermon and walked around a bit. While their, Dr. Fekkes read from Deuteronomy 8. Our last stop today was a village by the Lebanon and Syrian boarders where we meet with a man who has his Ph.D. in Biology. He offered us Arab coffee and explained to us the issues that come with living so close to enemy territory (rockets, bombs, invasions, ect.).
He also explained to us that at the end of the day we are all still human and we need to treat each other the way which we want to be treated. He took us to see all the watchtowers (United Nations, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria) all of which you can see by standing just about anywhere in his village. Surrounding the boarder of the town are tall barbed wire fences and explosive mines (which have killed 66 people, many of which have been kids who got too close). It's sad that they have to live like that, right in the center of a war zone surrounded by watch towers and explosives. It almost felt like a prison with crows nest surrounding all sides.
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