Monday: Bedouin Hospitality

At about 5:00 we arrived at a site that offers Bedouin hospitality to groups like ours. The Bedouin camp. First we looked from our high perch down into the Aravah valley below and across to the mountains of Jordan. CJ made a joke that we might have to be ready for an attack across the valley from Jordan. It occured to me that he was born a year after Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994, so while someone my age knows how long and hard it was to forge a peace treaty, someone CJ's age may not even know about it.

CJ looked over my shoulder and reminded me that it was a learning moment for him and to say how awsome he is!

Our Bedouin host, Amir, gave us an introduction to Bedouin music; to the ideas, limits, and culture of hospitality; and to the many things you need to know about camels if you are going to live the life of the Bedouin. We then sat down to a yummy dinner of chicken and rice. There were other kids CJ and Tamara's age, so they had a great time hanging out outside the tent while the grownups finished dinner inside.