Joelle's Playroom!

Welcome! Welcome!
To Joelle's Playroom!
We set up this room especially for Joelle so that she can play there, crawl there, learn to walk there. In a safer surrounding so that Joeanne can do her own stuffs at home without constantly watching her.

Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Mt Carmel & Caesarea

2 weeks after the Passover holidays, it was Israel's War Memorial Day and followed by Independence Day. We went to the following places over that long weekend.

Nazareth 1st Century Village
Based on solid New Testament scholarship and the most up-to-date archaeology, Nazareth Village brings to life a farm and Galilean village, recreating Nazareth as it was 2,000 years ago. Come meet the people and experience first-century hospitality. Step through a stone doorway into the dim interior, and smell the smoke from the oil lamps. You will begin to imagine life in another time, when Jesus lived here in Nazareth. In the courtyard peer into the cistern, a vital part of any household. Hand-hewn caves store wheat and other supplies.

Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth

it is believed to be the location where Mary as a virgin, was visited by the Archangel Gabriel and told that she had been selected to be the mother of Jesus.

The current church is a two-story building constructed in 1967 over the site of an earlier Byzantine-era and then Crusader-era church. Inside, the lower level contains the Grotto of the Annunciation, believed by many Christians to be the remains of the original childhood home of Mary.

Sea of Galilee

Mount Beatitude

Church of the Beatitudes on the northern coast of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The traditional spot where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount.

Tabgha: Church of the Multiplicationof the Loaves and the Fishes

The traditional site of the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes.

But we arrive after it was closed so we can take a photo outside....

Dinner at Tiberias by the Sea of Galilee in the evening

We ate the grilled and fried version of St Peter's fish. Yummy....

Mount Carmel

Carmelite monastery of St Elias (Elijah).

It was here, according to the tradition, that Elijah set up an altar during his conflict with the 450 priests of Baal.

View of Mount Carmel from the top of the monastery.

Caeasarea National Park

Caesarea is a city dedicated by Herod the Great to Caesar Augustus more than 2,000 years ago.

Originally a Phoenician port, Herod the Great built Caesarea into the grandest city other than Jerusalem in Palestine, with a deep sea harbor (called Sebastos), aqueduct, hippodrome and amphitheater.

Paul was kept at Caesarea before. See picture below.