Petra also known as the Red Rock. Our Journey began early in the morning 8am where we caught a shuttle to the Jordan/Israel Border so that we would have our passports stamped. Then we took another bus with our tour guy that by the way - was great! The bus trip took about 2 hours from the border to Petra. Here we began our journey down through narrow passages awing and wowing every piece of ancient rock, carving that we found along the way. After 30+- minutes we came to a stop where Julie said to me "are you ready for this?" - I was not sure what to expect until I saw it - The Carved Red Rock in front of me - slowly appearing before my eyes - it was amazing. To just think that the Nabataeans built what we saw at around 7,500 BC. WOW!!!! is correct! Can you imaging what someone will find 7,500AD about us.
This sweet young boy [i think :( ] gave me a rock from petra colored purple and red and he wanted to take a picture with me. I thought that that was the sweetest! Unfortuntely I had no cash to hand him - to think that these kids are out in the burning sun every day trying to make a living to help the family - makes me really sad. These kids have to work to live! :( I ask myself, what can we do to help emilinate child-labor in foreign countries or at least minimize it so that children can get some education? 
