Hello to all:

The last post was a couple of nights ago as we arrived in Tiberias our base for our Galilee experience. I will post some pictures of our journey from the retreat on Sunday. Yesterday was a full day and was too tired to update you last night. For those who have been on a pilgrimage before you know from experience some days are busy and you do not have a lot of free time.

Yesterday was a day spent in Nazareth and Cana of Galilee. It was a cool wet and raining day as we left for Nazareth which is not too far from Tiberias. Fr. Adam our guide is a wealth of information and as we drive to our destinations he will give us its background in history sometimes to the present day and at the Holy land places he will give more details of how it relates to the life of Jesus. Nazareth for example is one of the two present cities in Israel that the Jewish and Arab people live together reasonably well at peace with one another. The Arab people are citizens of Israel which is quite different that the ones in the West Bank that covers most of Samaria. These people would like to have their own state and at the present time people are trying to work out solutions that this will become a reality. Lower Nazareth is the old part of the city and the market place whereas West Nazareth is the newer part of the city.

We first saw the Basilica of the Annunciation and its museum. In doing some building they found some artifacts and than did some archotological