Saturday, August 20, 2011

No Ordinary Walk on the Beach

The Mediterranean has some beautiful coastline, and Israel is no exception. There are tons of shells in the sand. It made me wish I were craftier because I had an almost overwhelming desire to start collecting the prettiest ones, but I have no idea what I'd do with them.
We walked to a little parkt hat has some Roman ruins in it. No big deal.


Then the most exciting part of our walk along the beach was when we got to see an anti-ballistic missile shoot down another missile coming in from Gaza. Here is the trail it left in the sky. Israel tries to get all incoming missiles before they hit the ground, but are successful only about 50% of the time. I'm sure glad they got this one because I have a feeling it might have landed close to us...

1 comment:

Megan said...

SERIOUSLY??? MISSILES???

Sheesh. I don't know what's crazier: the missile, or the fact that I'm still jealous of your trip! :)