Just another day . . . not!!!

This is not a long post, but I just had to write something because, come on, this has been one of the most amazing days EVER.

This morning I got up and went outside, only to see . . . desert to the right, and desert to the left. We were just over halfway through the Suez Canal. I've been interested in the Suez Canal and Panama Canal for a long time, and when I first was thinking about coming to the ships and inspecting a map, I again noticed the Suez Canal and thought, wouldn't it be inCREDible to actually be there and go through that canal??? and of course I never imagined it happening.

And today it happened!!!!! So amazing. We were seriously sailing through the desert. Once when I went outside, we were passing a military training ground where they were doing drills. Other than that, just sand dunes forever. WOW.

I think that was one of the highlights of my life. Maybe even more than visiting the pyramids (I make it sound like I'm a full-time tourist, don't I?)

THEN, after that, sometime this afternoon we entered the Red Sea. THE Red Sea – the one that God parted for the Israelites to pass. THE Red Sea. Incredibly (again!), my Bible reading today just so happened to be . . . in Exodus, just where that story is! I looked out the windows and thought, you know? They could have crossed right here! Or right there! You know, or not . . . but regardless, I will sail straight across those waters that God blew apart with a strong east wind. (I was thinking though – in Bible times that must have meant that the wind was blowing to the east, not from it – otherwise how would they ever have gotten across?) Somewhere underneath me, the sea bed was once dry and marked by thousands of Israelite feet, not to mention the six hundred Egyptians who were swept up and drowned!

This is so. amazing.