Team Liz in Wadi Rum

During Passover break Team Liz visited Jordan (April 7-10). Since we had already been to Petra we decided to spend a couple nights in Aqaba and two days in Wadi Rum, the Jordanian desert. Liz is fond of describing Wadi Rum in the following way "it's like the Negev on steroids - bigger hills, more space, deeper colors." Now if you have never been to the Negev, Israel's desert, this description may leave something to be desired. We hope these photos will help a little. Enjoy!

This photo was taken by our friend Eduardo. What you can not tell from this photo is that we are standing on top of a rock "bridge". The "bridge" was probably 45 feet high. Here you can see us standing at one end of the "bridge" in a Titanic'esque pose.


Perhaps one of the more special moments of the trip, was when Saul got to jam with this world renowned oud player. His name was Sa'id and he is a Jordanian bedouin. He was unbelievable on the oud and he even took a turn on Saul's guitar.



Saul takes a moment to survey the desert. We had climbed up this amazing sand dune. The sand was super fine and very red.

Team Liz Celebrates Passover

Team Liz spent first night (there is only one night of Passover in Israel unlike outside of Israel) of Passover with our friends Sally and Michael Klein-Katz. We dressed up and sat on the floor; we sang songs and remembered that we had once been slaves in Egypt and that although we, as Jews, are mostly free today, there are many people who still are not free.
We ate a large meal and at 1:30AM Team Liz threw in their head scarfs and called it a night - the seder continued even after we left!

Team Liz in Istanbul

With only a couple short months to go living in this side of the world Team Liz is taking advantage of traveling. This past weekend we travelled to Istanbul, Turkey. What an amazing city. We had two fun-filled and packed days of site seeing. Here are some of our photos. This first one has the famous Blue Mosque behind us.


This photo is of the underground cisterns near the Aya Sofia Mosque, Topkapi Palace and the Blue Mosque. This was Liz's favorite place in Istanbul, except for the store where we bought her a new bag.

Here is a photo of Saul literally jumping in the streets of Istanbul. You don't catch that on film every day!