The easiest and shortest day of our trip by far. I don't even remember much from today it was such a blur. We got up at 7:30 am (beautiful) and got on the bus at 8:30. Driving for around three hours we stopped at Sardis, a church of Revelation. In the book of Revelation and is charged with being dead and is given the command to "wake up!" The angel, also, claims that there are people within the Sardis church who have yet to falter and that they will rise with the Lord and walk with Him.
At the site, however, we visited two main buildings: the Gymnasium, the synagogue, and the temple of Artemis.
The Gymnasium was absolutely splendid; it was gorgeous. A two story building nearly completely reconstructed with gorgeous letters written adorning the columns and archways. Absolutely splendid. When you walked through the main doorway it went to a swimming pool which was pretty neat. It reminded me a lot of my sister, Angela. We actually found a tunnel and so Rachel and I went down into it. It ended about 100 feet from the beginning unfortunately. However the Gymnasium was beautiful though. Oh! We also met a group from Taylor in Indiana; they spoke English! It was probably the first non-accented English I've heard in the past two weeks. It was so great.
The synagogue was rather small but super cool as it depicted the strong jewish presence within the city of Sardis. Cenk explained that this was incredibly important as Paul focused on going to the Jewish centers which later paved the way for Christianity. Obviously important. (:
We then headed over to the temple of Artemis which was, honestly, just like all the other temples. There wasn't much special except that we saw a bunch of cute sheep on the hill side and Jim and Rachel was climbing on all the pillars. So. Yeah. I'm getting some major overload from being here.
After we left Sardis we arrived back in Izmir where we wasted an afternoon just relaxing in the hotel until dinner where we had fried chicken and french fries!! :D Oh how I miss American food. Now it's time for a packing party with the girls and then an early bed time because we have to get up at 5 am tomorrow.
Love y'all!
At the site, however, we visited two main buildings: the Gymnasium, the synagogue, and the temple of Artemis.
The Gymnasium was absolutely splendid; it was gorgeous. A two story building nearly completely reconstructed with gorgeous letters written adorning the columns and archways. Absolutely splendid. When you walked through the main doorway it went to a swimming pool which was pretty neat. It reminded me a lot of my sister, Angela. We actually found a tunnel and so Rachel and I went down into it. It ended about 100 feet from the beginning unfortunately. However the Gymnasium was beautiful though. Oh! We also met a group from Taylor in Indiana; they spoke English! It was probably the first non-accented English I've heard in the past two weeks. It was so great.
The synagogue was rather small but super cool as it depicted the strong jewish presence within the city of Sardis. Cenk explained that this was incredibly important as Paul focused on going to the Jewish centers which later paved the way for Christianity. Obviously important. (:
We then headed over to the temple of Artemis which was, honestly, just like all the other temples. There wasn't much special except that we saw a bunch of cute sheep on the hill side and Jim and Rachel was climbing on all the pillars. So. Yeah. I'm getting some major overload from being here.
After we left Sardis we arrived back in Izmir where we wasted an afternoon just relaxing in the hotel until dinner where we had fried chicken and french fries!! :D Oh how I miss American food. Now it's time for a packing party with the girls and then an early bed time because we have to get up at 5 am tomorrow.
Love y'all!
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