Day 22: Fire.

View from Citadel where we ate 2nd breakfast

I went home sick after 2^nd breakfast and slept until everyone got in and then afterward as well.  After dinner, Jeff Blakely gave a lecture on Palestinian Archeology. I went to bed early as I wasn’t feeling well.

Joni woke me up at about 2:00AM asking if I smelled smoke. She thought the building was on fire.  It smelled like a bonfire to me, but it had a sickly sweet smell to it that upset further my already uneasy stomach.

{I know it sounds like I was sick a lot. I guess I was, but I was healthy and working my butt off more than not. The work was hard, and the weather harder. The last week of the dig, the heat picked WAY up. average daily temperature was somewhere around 110F.}
{A note about the picture: Caesarea is both a land and undersea archaeological dig. The divers started at sun-up (we  land-laborers started about a half hour before sunrise, because of the heat).  Most of the underwater exploration was happening about the middle of the picture.}