Hiking a Wadi

So this past weekend one of the grad students sent out a message that he was going hiking around the Dead Sea area and anyone who wanted to join him could. So naturally, me and a bunch of people went. And oh my goodness it was beautiful!

The weather was fabulous, about 80 degrees, and, after thoroughly sunblocking myself (just for you mom) we started climbing. Of the big group most of them were guys who decided to do the "extremely difficult" trail as fast as they could. That was not really my style, especially since looking up at the trail all I could see was a very steep slope of very slippery, small, sharp looking rocks. So instead me, Chelsea, and a wonderful girl named Anna decided to do the other trail to the hidden waterfall.

Everywhere around are the giant red stone mountains and the biggest boulders you've ever seen. A wadi just means a river bed which cuts through the mountains, so we were following a little stream of water all the way up. We ate lunch at the waterfall, Anna fell in, it was great.