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I recently traveled to Israel for work and had the opportunity to enjoy some site-seeing while there.  We had a great time both working and playing there, the amount of history in Jerusalem was mind-blowing and only scratched the surface.  We also traveled to Masada and the Dead Sea which was equally amazing -floating in the Dead Sea was an really neat experience!

Below are some videos that I created and a link to a bunch of pictures I took as well.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them!

Video: The Dead Sea

Video: The Dead Sea Floating

->See the pictures here<-

We had the chance to visit the Temple Mount - is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years. At least four religions are known to have used the Temple Mount: Judaism,Christianity, Roman religion, and Islam:

Floating in the Dead Sea - The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world’s first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptianmummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets:

The Dead Sea seawater has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming similar to floating.

-Wayne

Snapped this one from the deck of the beach house we were in last week in Duck, NC…needless to say it freaked a few people out in the house!

Last week was beach week!  We had a fun time in the sun, it started off H-O-T (the outside temperature on the trip there hit 108 degrees!)  It quickly cooled off and we had some really nice days around 85 and not so bad.  We took a wave runner out for a spin – the kids loved that (I was the only one over 16 so I had to drive for the whole hour – sweet!).

You can get to the gallery of photos here