The Citadel

We've had a bit of extra time during the last week to do a some site seeing. I don't think this will be the case during the next two months because I'm sure Jerid's internship duties will pick up. This last week he spent about an hour or two a day at a shelter for battered boys. He loved the time he had with them to play and try to jib jab in arabic, but they're in the middle of their finals at school so they couldn't use Jerid as much as they thought. He started his new "rotation" at the ministry building today and I'm sure he'll be putting in a good 6-8 hours a day now. Hopefully he'll be able to go back to the shelter once school gets out and they have more time away from studies.
On Wednesday we went to the Citadel. It was one of Rome's fortresses along with their temple of Hurcules. I'm sure I'm going to be saying this a lot in the next few months, but there is nothing like walking on the paths and streets of a people that lived thousands of years ago. To try to image what the buildings looked like when they were brand new and bustling with people... it's fascinating. There was a cave in particular that amazed me. I don't have a picture of it, but it was used for the burial of people around 3500 BC, then thousands of years later the Romans started pulling limestone out of the cave around the tombs to build their temple. Walking into the cave was something else. I really just wanted to know what those people looked like and what their lives were like.
Here are a few pictures...
The Temple of Hercules.




















Dead sea scrolls...

Location:Amman, Jordan