i love africa
along with my last week came about 800 pictures. yes i get picture happy. so instead of a lot written boring post, i'm going to post tons of pictures. sorry for those who don't like this. to be honest this is mostly for my parentals. i hate not having flickr. anyways i'll explain my amazing week in africa through pictures...enjoy

i'd like to introduce you to 78 of my new best friends.....
i love every one of them. i feel like i have learned so much already from these beautiful people.
this is all of us on top of mt. sinai.
don't we look awesome
jeru crew spring/summer '09 is the best.
we spent two days in luxor. those were two of the best and worst days. about 95% of us got sick from the food. good news though...this bonded all of us completely. funny and gross i know. we stayed at this beautiful resort right next to the nile. bod and i took model shots while enjoying the sunset over the nile. nothing better than that.
i'd like to introduce you to 78 of my new best friends.....
i love every one of them. i feel like i have learned so much already from these beautiful people.
this is all of us on top of mt. sinai.
don't we look awesome
jeru crew spring/summer '09 is the best.
we spent two days in luxor. those were two of the best and worst days. about 95% of us got sick from the food. good news though...this bonded all of us completely. funny and gross i know. we stayed at this beautiful resort right next to the nile. bod and i took model shots while enjoying the sunset over the nile. nothing better than that.

we had so much fun seeing everything there was to see in egypt. one of the greatest blessings of this trip was the bond that was created between all of us. even though we weren't staying together on the trip my roommates and i got so much closer. this is me and kelynn. i love this girl so much. she is such an incredible person and so much fun to be around.
she is so great at being crazy with me.
gotta love people like that.
one of the highlights of the trip.
sinai
our last day we woke up at 2 am to start our trek up mount sinai. considering the fact that i was still sick the hike was a little harder. i now have a great love for moses.
it took about an hour and a half to reach the top. i loved looking up at the stars as we hiked.
once we reached the top we all cuddled close together. it was freezing on top. finally the sun came up.
this was probably one of the most beautiful experiences i have been able to enjoy in the short little life. we spent about an hour taking pictures and enjoying the sunrise. we were also blessed to have the opportunity for testimony meeting up top of mt. sinai.
nothing better than this.

this picture was taken at the karnak temple. it was beautiful and amazing to me how much of it is still standing. those egyptians were seriously so talented.
a bunch of the boys picked up on the egypt way and rocked these sweet dress type things. micheal was my favorite one. they all looked so cute.
i sure love the people i'm with here!
for the rest of the time we had at the pyramids we ran around taking random pictures. bod and i got the jumping ones down...boo ya grandma
on our way back to jeru we stopped again at the red sea. it was plenty hot outside and so we really enjoyed the refreshing water. this is just a few of us chillin on the beach.
play in the red sea with best friends....
check
i love being able to check things off my bucket list.
i love my fun in the sun

eariler in the day chappy had told us an entertaining story about himself. we were slightly mocking him and reenacting his story while holding our sound and light show tickets in this picture.
anyways our first night we stayed at a kibbutz on the israel egyt boarder. our night was free and so we decided to party on the shore of the red sea. this is us just chillin in the water. may i remind you that this is the very same sea that moses parted. i attempted to part the waters myself but no such luck. i was amazed with how big the red sea really is. warm water, nice breeze, frozen treats and great friends equal an incredible night.
this would have to be one of my most favorite pictures from the trip. this is another one from on top of mt sinai.
chappy and i decided it would be cool to take a jumping picture. well there isn't much jumping room when you are on top of a mountain. we finally found a sweet spot to jump.
mom don't worry i was safe.
check out the sweet back drop and my ecstatic face. yep i loved every minute on top of that beautiful mountain.

as we were about to get off the bus at this stop bro. huff told us about some great picture opportunities. we had about an hour to run around and take random pictures. we started climbing over all the ruins. picture after picture we were on, under and standing on ruins. we had so much fun. upon returning to the bus we found out that what we had just done was illegal. apparently the other bus was told not to climb on anything and had even gotten in trouble for standing too close to a ruin. bro. huffs response
"oh well, its better to ask for forgiveness than permission"
despite the fact that i was sick i enjoyed my trip to egypt. there are so many stories and such to share but i don't have the time. i hope these few pictures can express my new love for africa.
greater friendships
amazing world wonders
hilarious stories
sweet new stuff
yep it was a great week.
Syd - this is incredible!!! Your pictures are amazing. I'm so excited to hear all the details when you get home!
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I freaking love all of these pictures you just sound like you are having soo much fun. I miss you cant wait for you to be home:)
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Syd, I love love love your posts! It makes me so happy to see all of your different adventures and exciting opportunities that you get while you're in Jerusalem. I wish I could be out there with Mike and Jack and you! Keep the posts and pictures coming. Love you tons!! And Africa, how sweet!
ReplyDeleteSydney! Well, after a marathon of a post reading, I must say, I love how you describe your experiences almost with a reverence for the awesome things you are learning. You've got a great attitude toward your study abroad and it looks like you're having so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI love your Egypt pics. You are quite the artist! You captured some cool stuff. muy bien.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being one of my followers. I would follow you if I knew how...ha.
I stumbled across your blog and happened to see the MOST AMAZING pictures EVER! Haha...
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are living up those college years and having the time of your life - Your pictures are AMAZING and SO fun! You have a real eye for fun, good photos.
Love ya muchos! *muah*
- Linze Kate
it looks like your summer is going much less "crappy" than mine...ha ha, ignore the bad pun...but yes, i would love to play with you when you get home so please let me know when that day comes!
ReplyDeleteSid! I love your blog! Your pics are astounding! I love egypt. but, most of all i love you! :) i hope you don't mind, but i am totally following your blog!
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