We started off our day visiting the Soreq Cave (Stalactite Cave)...it was an absolutely beautiful experience. The cave, was very humid, and slippery, but what made it all worth it was seeing the stalactites hanging from the ceiling, which are basically pointy spike coming down off the ceiling. While on the other hand there were also the same thing coming up through the floors, but those are called stalagmites. These are caused by CO2 mixing with water, creating a carbonic acid, and then the carbonic acid seeping into the limestone, which then dissolves the rock.
After seeing the cave we went to the valley of Ella where David killed Goliath. Seeing this really meant the world to me. Of course there really isn't much of anything here today, besides the valleys ans fields...with a highway on the side...but it really helped my paint a picture in my head of what it looked like. After taking a Old Testament class back at school, I've had a pretty good idea as to what the valley looked like..but there was never cars going by in on the highway in this picture! What I found even more interesting was that the stream that runs though is dried up this time of year, and once winter comes it'll start flowing again, and even get to the point where it causes floods.
After spending some time in the valley of Ella, we went to the site where the Ark of the Covenant was once held when Eli's two sons decided to take the Ark of the Covenant into battle hoping that it would bring down the Philistines when it actually had the opposite effect.
Overall I really enjoyed today even though it was extremely hot! But I still did get a lot out of it Biblically and Spiritually.
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