Golan Heights

Hello everyone! Today was a really nice day. First we went to Tabgha, the church of the first feeding of the 5,000.  It was really pretty. Then we drove down the street to St. Peter's Primacy. We went down to the shores of the Sea of Galilee.  It was really quiet and peaceful down there. Afterwards we drove up to the Golan Heights winery.  There was this really weird video that we had to watch at the first of the tour, describing how the wine was made. Haha. We toured the place and watched the barrels get filled with wine. There were TONS of them. After that we went to the bottling area and watched the bottles get filled with wine. We headed over to the wine tasting room where we tasted three wines.  The adults liked most of them, I think. But most of us didn't. Haha. Darby thought they were the "grossest thing she'd ever put in her mouth". I liked all the wines we tasted. There were two white wines and a red wine. The last one everyone liked. It was a dessert wine.  After we tasted the wines, we were able to buy some. We left the winery and drove up to the Israeli/Syrian border. There were some really pretty mountains.  We could see the road to Damascus. It got significantly colder when we went up and saw it though. When we got back to the bus, we started driving [probably the prettiest drive I've ever taken] down to the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve. The Hermon stream is a stream that starts at the foot of Mount Hermon.  The mountain absorbs all the water and it flows down at the foot of the mountain. Those springs create the Dan, Hermon, and Senir rivers that flow into the Jordan river. They were really pretty.  After that we drove over to Tel Dan, another nature reserve. We took a walk through the wilderness. There were flowers from the mustard seed and little ponds.  Well it's Day 8, and our trip is almost over!  :(. It's sad. But I think we'll all be glad to be home. :)

Callie