Part 1

Hey sorry this has taken me SO long to post. I have not been on the computer long enough to really type it up. I had written a bit of it but it got deleted, so here goes again.
Day 1. We left Yeshiva early in the morning (around 8) and drove for a while. The first place we stopped off at was a lookout over a massive canyon.
Pictures to come later.

This canyon was caused by a massive meteorite. Can anyone say Run! to dinosaurs much? This canyon was massive! I will be posting more pictures of it to the gallery so you can get an idea of the massiveness of the crater.
We then drove to another lookout which was incredible. From the mountaintop we could see Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai. You could see (as the song says) for miles and miles and miles and miles. ;-)
After that we got back on the bus and drove for another little while until we reached the campsite. At the campsite, we went for a small hike there as well. When I say campsite, it was literally just a mostly flat area in between the surrounding mountains. We hiked into the mountains, well more like in between them. There was a nice trail, it was so beautiful. The mountains were called the Red Mountains because there was so much red in them. We hiked through there and that took about an hour, at which point we returned to the site and set up camp. We all had tents provided by the yeshiva, and I was able to put mine of the fastest. :-) Experience counts. lol. I had a 4 person tent, my two roommates and a good friend of ours.
We got up at 4 am and hiked as I said in the post while on the trip, to our first peak. We there davened Shacharit as the sun rose. I am going to sleep now and will continue later.
Have a good night
Jesse