Just a glimpse of life: Petra

Petra was basically AMAZING!!! I didn't really know what to expect, other than the treasury that I had seen in movies. We started out the day by taking a nice 2 block stroll down the street from our hotel and entering in through this siq (which basically is a crack that was originally made by an earthquake that then wore away and created this amazing cavern-ish.... yeah, basically i have incredible descriptions, let's be honest. lol) So anyways, we walk through the siq quite a ways and then turn a corner and in between the rocks is this amazing view of the treasury, that just gets more and more incredible as you advance towards it. Afterwards we all kind of split up and did our own thing all around petra. We took a hike up to the monastery which took about an hour and was 850 stairs plus the uphill path... but it was great!! The monastery was amazing. I think I liked it more than the treasury. (In my opinion all the camera crews couldn't get all their equipment up there, otherwise all the movies would've been filmed there). Then we went to a ton of view points and hiked around and explore up there. It was A BLAST!!!! (I need to steal pics from some people to give everyone an idea of what it was like).

Overall, it was a GREAT day!!

K this camel almost ATE MY FACE OFF!!!!!!

In front of the treasury--recognize it from Indiana Jones,

and from what I hear... the new Transformers movie?!?!

Some cute kids we met on our hike up to the monastery.

On the way back down from the monastery... this donkey kept following us all the way down and we didn't know who it belonged to. But it would follow us, and if we stopped and turned around, it would stop and turn around like this picture, then it would continue and follow us as we started walking. haha it was great!