I'm alive! YEAH! That cold/flu/infection/whatever it was knocked me out pretty good but I am back in the land of the living and don't plan on getting that sick ever again. OK, so on to Day 4 in Africa.
We went to the grocery store (I think it was this day or maybe the day before....) I would liken it to a cross between Fry's Marketplace and Super Wal-Mart. You can shop for furniture and food. A few of the biggest differences from our shopping experiences: the eggs are not refrigerated- WHAT?!?!? You get your produce weighed and tagged with a price before you leave that area so the cashier just scans it, no weighing at the check-out. Prices were pretty similar from what I remember, but it's low on convenience foods.
Amelia and G enjoyed a tea party. Amelia brought a cute little 2 person tea set to have a tea party with G. G knew just what to do with the tea set and the girls enjoyed their "party."
Time for a tea party!
K trying to figure out what the girls are doing in there.
G feeding Amelia!
Day 4 afternoon we went to a city near Epiphany to see ruins. It was a little rainy and chilly, but the sites were breathtaking. Lots of tour buses at the larger sites.
An ampitheater- think Collesium but smaller. Gladiator type activities happened here including the killing of the first Christian martyrs in this area. According to J, 2 women were held here and then killed for sport. Legend has it that one woman was pregnant, they allowed her to birth the baby, nurse it once and then had her killed. I'd like to beleive that the baby was taken in by Christians and raised to tell others about Christ- that's the happy ending anyway. It's very humbling to stand were people stood 2000 years ago and died for their faith in Jesus Christ.
The Longs at the ampitheater.
An old altar set-up inside the "basement" of the ampitheater.
Friends enjoying each other!
A picture from some Roman ruins by the sea. Does anyone know what kind of tree that is? I've only seen it in Epiphany and in Rocky Point. They are beautiful. Anyone? Anyone?
Hey- has anyone seen my big toe?
An old Roman Forum. Can't you picture everyone (well really just men) sitting around talking and solving the world's problems! It's beautiful with the sea in the background.
HA- this picture makes me smile!
An old "city." I likened it to townhomes! The 4 stones in the middle of the picture are from the catupults that were used to detroy this area. They are about the size of basketballs for reference.
Coffins of babies burned in the fire and sacrificed to false gods, Agog and Magog centuries ago.
An underground, "secret" church. I was blown away by how small it was.
Roman Bath house ruins- the engineering and construction is very cool.
Our final adventure for the day was a trip to the US War Memorial. This was set up to honor all US soldiers killed in Northern Africa during WWII. I am not good at history at all and didn't even know the war had been fought on this soil. The memorial included a detailed outline of what happened and when. Basically Ephiphany was a huge supply site: ammo, equipment and people. It was controlled by the Axis until the Allies fought to take them over in order to cut off their supply chain. We all know how the war ended so I won't detail that part! This was definitely beautiful and sorrowful at the same time. Thanks to all the veterans who've given so much for us.
1 comment:
wow Erin, great pics. The one of the baby coffins was so sad. I can't believe that happened. On a lighter note, the big toe one was funny! That one made me smile. :)
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