Today we visited the church of St. George in Madaba, to see the famous map of the Holy Land. It's a little awkward, though, because the church is still in use and we have to wait for the congregants to finish before we all crowd in.
A sure sign that my heart's not really into this - my journal says "Donut shop is closed :("
From Madaba we move on into Amman on a bus. It's a cloudy, chilly day and I'm actually cold, which is shocking.
In Amman we visit the museum where the Dead Sea Scrolls are kept. I expected to geek out over them - much like the manuscripts and scrolls in the Coptic museum, but it just wasn't that compelling. Much like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, there's just too much history crammed into too little space.
Dinner tonight was at a restaurant named Don Quixote, and consists of the same basic food we've been eating for the last two weeks, but it's GOOD which is frustrating. It's not that they don't know how to make good food here, it's just that we're not getting it.
Our group has a final farewell in the bar at the hotel. "Dinner of 2.5 beers and French Fries."
Tomorrow we head back to Cairo on our own.
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