- Jerusalem Zoo
- Children’s Science Museum
- Mediterranean beaches
- Glassblowing factory
- Swimming with dolphins
- Rosh Hanikra (cable cars, grottos, and ocean)
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Downtime Activities
(With five kids, our trip can’t be all-antiquities all-the-time. Here is the (ever-changing) list of non-archeological activities we may end up doing.)
Welcome!
We are the Ross Family: Bradley (dad, IT business guy), Keryn (mom, geologist), son Zee (will be 17 at trip-time), daughter Em (will be 15), son Gee (will be 13), son Hebs (will be 12), and daughter Yummy (will be 10).
And we are going to Israel for three weeks in the fall of 2020! We are absurdly excited about this trip and want to make the most of this (expensive, amazing, once-in-a-lifetime) experience. To that end, we’ve created a blog to record the things we are doing to prepare ourselves and our kids for our adventure.
We’re going to be posting everything: from logistics (passports, plane tickets, accommodations, packing) to antiquities research (we want to know what we’re going to be looking at!), downtime activities (parks, non-archeological museums, beaches) to cuisine (we’ve got some picky eaters). The hope is that by recording these things here, we’ll be able to access and remember our prep work.
It’s a daunting and exciting task, and we’ve never done anything like this before. The kids have never been on a commercial airplane. I (Keryn) have never had a passport (although, pre-9/11, I did travel to the Bahamas and to Mexico). Luckily, Bradley spent a semester abroad at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center in the fall of 2000, so we at least have a starting point!
The next two years are going to be wild and crazy and fun—getting ourselves ready for this adventure is going to be at least half the fun. Here we go!
And we are going to Israel for three weeks in the fall of 2020! We are absurdly excited about this trip and want to make the most of this (expensive, amazing, once-in-a-lifetime) experience. To that end, we’ve created a blog to record the things we are doing to prepare ourselves and our kids for our adventure.
We’re going to be posting everything: from logistics (passports, plane tickets, accommodations, packing) to antiquities research (we want to know what we’re going to be looking at!), downtime activities (parks, non-archeological museums, beaches) to cuisine (we’ve got some picky eaters). The hope is that by recording these things here, we’ll be able to access and remember our prep work.
It’s a daunting and exciting task, and we’ve never done anything like this before. The kids have never been on a commercial airplane. I (Keryn) have never had a passport (although, pre-9/11, I did travel to the Bahamas and to Mexico). Luckily, Bradley spent a semester abroad at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center in the fall of 2000, so we at least have a starting point!
The next two years are going to be wild and crazy and fun—getting ourselves ready for this adventure is going to be at least half the fun. Here we go!
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