Sorry about the delay in updating my blog. We have been on a cruise ship for the past couple of days, making it very difficult to get access to the internet. I know how many of you have been sitting on the edge of your seat, holding your breath as you wait for each day (HA!), so hopefully I can catch you up.
On May 13 we boarded the ship to depart from Kusadasi, which is the city just south of the ancient city of Ephesus. I have never been on a cruise before. The biggest boat I have ever been on involved a small trolling motor and two oars, so this is a new experience for me. It has its ups
and downs (literally), but overall, I am having an enjoyable time.
We boarded the ship at about 9:30, which left us a couple of hours to return back to the city of Kusadasi and do a little shopping. There were a couple of things that I wanted to pick up before we left. I stopped in a shop as David Thomley and I were heading back to the ship, and bought a few items. I used my credit card to make the purchase, which took much longer than anticipated. This required David and I to run all the way back to the ship, which was scheduled to leave at 11:30. We made it with one minute to spare, but I was afraid I was going to have to give David mouth to mouth CPR once we boarded.
We headed out of port on a beautiful sunny day, but with a bit of a crisp wind as you can see from the picture at right. That afternoon we made a stop at Patmos, which most of you will remember was where the Apostle John was given the vision by Christ, which he later described to us in the book of Revelation. Patmos is a beautiful island, with only about 3,000 residents, but 20,000 tourists a day. It is hard to imagine that this island was once the place where Domitian sent prisoners that he didn’t want to execute, but wanted to remove from society.
We took about a two hour tour of the island, with a main stop at a church which houses, get this, the cave of St. John. The Greek Orthodox church and her traditions are strong here. Supposedly this is where John wrote Revelation. You enter the doorway of this building and head down 45 steps, and enter another door and on the right is a cave at which they have marked where John slept, wrote and even places in the rock where John lifted himself up when he got out of bed. There is a three way split in a rock at the exit of cave which supposedly represents the Trinity. Unfortunately they did not allow pictures. I have included a picture of the bell tower atop of the church building.
After a short tour of a museum which houses a few 6th century manuscripts, we headed back to the ship to eat dinner and set sail for our next stop – the island of Rhodes.
On May 13 we boarded the ship to depart from Kusadasi, which is the city just south of the ancient city of Ephesus. I have never been on a cruise before. The biggest boat I have ever been on involved a small trolling motor and two oars, so this is a new experience for me. It has its ups
and downs (literally), but overall, I am having an enjoyable time.We boarded the ship at about 9:30, which left us a couple of hours to return back to the city of Kusadasi and do a little shopping. There were a couple of things that I wanted to pick up before we left. I stopped in a shop as David Thomley and I were heading back to the ship, and bought a few items. I used my credit card to make the purchase, which took much longer than anticipated. This required David and I to run all the way back to the ship, which was scheduled to leave at 11:30. We made it with one minute to spare, but I was afraid I was going to have to give David mouth to mouth CPR once we boarded.
We headed out of port on a beautiful sunny day, but with a bit of a crisp wind as you can see from the picture at right. That afternoon we made a stop at Patmos, which most of you will remember was where the Apostle John was given the vision by Christ, which he later described to us in the book of Revelation. Patmos is a beautiful island, with only about 3,000 residents, but 20,000 tourists a day. It is hard to imagine that this island was once the place where Domitian sent prisoners that he didn’t want to execute, but wanted to remove from society.
We took about a two hour tour of the island, with a main stop at a church which houses, get this, the cave of St. John. The Greek Orthodox church and her traditions are strong here. Supposedly this is where John wrote Revelation. You enter the doorway of this building and head down 45 steps, and enter another door and on the right is a cave at which they have marked where John slept, wrote and even places in the rock where John lifted himself up when he got out of bed. There is a three way split in a rock at the exit of cave which supposedly represents the Trinity. Unfortunately they did not allow pictures. I have included a picture of the bell tower atop of the church building.
After a short tour of a museum which houses a few 6th century manuscripts, we headed back to the ship to eat dinner and set sail for our next stop – the island of Rhodes.
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