Here are a few pictures from last weekend. We headed south with Sara and Luke and spent some days in Petra (and Eilat again).

Sara and I entering the Siq (the 1 km entrance to Petra).

The Treasury -- the first building/tomb you see when you leave the Siq. We arrived quite early in the morning and we had the whole place mostly to ourselves (besides the bedouin and camels/donkeys) -- great for pictures.

Jer and I at the Treasury -- it's really big...

You can see some more of the tombs carved into the rockface in the distance.

More tombs...

The amphitheater below

Temple ruins

More mosaics from more Byzantine Churches. This one was just discovered in 1993 or 94.

When we first got to Petra I was expecting to see this incredible natural coloured rock and was sort of disappointed, but then the noon sun hit and this happened. There are two paths/hikes in Petra -- most people do one per day. Jer and I ambitiously decided to do both. This one was the second one we did, a little later on in the day. We climbed over 800 steps in over 100 degrees to see this altar.....

This was the better choice of the two hikes. This is the Monastry.

Here is a Bedouin (in the white shirt if you can see him) getting ready to jump on top of the Monastry. He scaled the side wall, climbed to the very top of the middle 'urn' and then jumped from peak to peak. It was terrifying to watch.

Here he is climbing at the top in the middle.Jer and I stood in front to show how big the Monastry is. We are at the bottom by the entrance. These buildings are all just facades for tombs with really just a small square room for an inside.

One more picture for Chris, this was outside of Petra, pretty funny.

Anyway, Petra was great. Here are (a lot) more pictures from Eilat with some actual fish in them.

All the black spots are fish -- too bad all of their colours don't show...

This is a parrot fish which are everywhere in Eilat -- they are about 1.5 - 2 feet big and all sorts of colours. The green and purple ones are nicer but this is the best picture I got of (half of) one through my mask and a big plastic camera.

That's all for now