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We finally have access to a Mac! We arrived in Jordan in style because we were offered an upgrade to first class in Chicago – great service, meals, and seats reclined flat for our 12 hour flight.
Our Crown Hotel has air conditioning and good food which helps our 104 degrees today. Actually the weather has been great with cool wind, and also because we start our work at the Hesban dig at 6 a.m. and stop at 12:15 p.m. We are served a breakfast of bread, filafel and watermelon at 9 a.m. under a goat hair bedoin tent on our site.
Hope you have seen pictures of the site on madabaplains.org, click on hesban, click on “take the virtural tour.” We are working on separate fields at the site, and are considered assistant square supervisors, which really means we are volunteer workers. Milton’s group will be opening up a new section from the Mamluk period (19th century), and Judy’s group is continuing work in a preworked section to dig down to an earlier period probably Byzantine (12th century). We have seen lots of pottery sherds and tiny ceramic tiles, hoping to uncover some interesting artifacts that are then recorded and studied/published by our archaeologist project director during the next 3 years before they again return for another dig. We are truly digging in dirt and clearing it away, sometimes hard work, but every day is fascinating.
It’s very safe here, people are friendly and honest. I lost our passports in a taxi, and the driver returned them later that night after driving an hour to get back to our hotel.
We have been up on Mt. Nebo where Moses walked up, visited the SDA church, and went to downtown Amman once. We work Monday-Friday, with our 1st tour this Sunday to Northern Jordan.
Want you to know we miss you and are finally relieved to have access to this computer to let you all know we are safe. We love you and will post when able.
We finally found postcards and will send to everyone. Love you all, Dad&Judy/M&M/etc.