One more thing...

I forgot two cool things from the Mount of Olives. We saw an unfinished church (a la San Galgano) with pine trees for pews (not like pine pews - there were trees growing where the pews would be) because it had no roof! It was Pater Noster, the site where Jesus taught his disciples how to pray the Our Father. It has the prayer written in about 100 different languages throughout the site. It was a very neat place, mostly for the fact that it was a church without a roof (again!).





The other thing, the most amazing, exciting thing to happen at the top of a ridiculously steep hike: we saw a camel! That is all.