Amman - Museum - Medeba - Mt Nebo - crossing the Jordan - no sleepi

So i woke up this morning in Amman: my last day away from home, sort of. This is the last full day away, yet somehow waking up i was still over 48hrs away from home. Go figure- who came up with time zones anyway?
Above is Amman, Jordan, built up around the ancient theater that seats 5000.
These columns formed the Temple to Hercules - so of course they were huge. Old and gigantic, story of my trip. Just a note, the girl in the orange skirt is full size.
Continuing on Jordan's underselling their stuff- this unsuspecting museum holds some of the oldest statues of humans (6500 yrs old), ancient skulls and some of the Dead Sea Scroll. Security is less than tight, many of the artifacts are not even encased, and though pictures are not permitted they proved to be a less than daunting task. I will not post any, because i abide the laws and did not take any. I cannot speak for all patrons of the museum.

Off to Madaba- or Medeba- pretty much you can put whatever vowels you want in any word so long as you get the consonants in the right order. You can also pronounce anything however you choose, assuming you can look like you know what you are doing.
Medeba is an important city throughout history. During the Byzantine era (Roman), someone decided it would be a neat idea to use a giant mosiac map as a floor covering, showing all of the Roman empire. I dont know why people have stoped such decor. I certainly want a map (60x20 ft) covering my space. The extant portions of the map prove both accurate and informative to scholars today. Pictured below is Jerusalem. Different colored buildings indicated different uses, as do symbols and scripts-just like maps today!This is where we had lunch. Pretty.
The final stop on our Jordan tour- and really Israel tour as well- was Mt Nebo. This awesome sign again provided by my host country. This one is well aged: you cannot fake rust.
This is the view Moses had after wandering in the desert for 40 yrs. Interestingly we tend to think Moses was able to see all of the Promised Land... but an effect of the heat is fog. I always want to know what is layed out in front of me and for some reason i think such a perspective is due me- this expereince might lead me to think otherwise.

I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
-Deuteronomy 32:3-4

From here we crossed from Jordan into the West Bank and on to Israel, so technically from a country into hot nothingness before finding ourselves back in a place recognized by the UN. We arrived back in Jerusalem just in time for dinner back at the Gloria.
Some of my companions will stay a few day extra in Jerusalem, some are on to France, Germany, England... i am happy to be headed home. A lot can be accomplished in three and a half weeks of traveling. More can be accomplished in 5 or 6 weeks... but i miss you guys... so i'm coming home.

And now i am trying to stay awake until 1:45am when i will catch the sharut (shuttle) to the airport and begin my long-day-and-a-half-of-perpetual-sunlight-travel.

Yea!