A Day Trip North

Blog Post About June 2021

At the beginning of June, there were some days of nice weather, so one Friday, our fellowship group decided to take Bible study on the road :)

We drove north to a town for lunch and then drove back out of the valley so we could go to a mountaintop and look down at the city.

We've been to this city about four times, but we had never been to the overlook. 

June 4, 2021

Afterward, we drove back south to a monastery we have visited a couple of times. It's in a protected Christian city near the Nineveh plain, we had to get special permission from a guard to enter.

The first time we went (October 2018), you may remember, was days after Kylie's accident, and she climbed hundreds of steps on crutches.

Caleb found new places to explore this time around.

And we found a cave off the beaten path, below the monastery, that we all climbed into for Bible study, along with a lot of bat guano :)

Afterwards, people like me rested at the car and ate snacks, while other ,more adventurous people (like the rest of my family), climbed another mountain to an overlook over the Nineveh plains.

Can you see their heads silhouetted against the sky way at the top?

They made it!

And there was a cross at the top

Next, we headed into the city to see how far the government had gotten on restoring Nahum's tomb, but it still wasn't finished. 

In fact, they just had the opening ceremony on November 2021, so next time we go, we'll be able to see it. If you look at the end of the post about the first time we went, you can see how far they still had to go back in 2018.