The next weekend we decided to take a trip to Ashkelon. This is an old town
about an hour south of here with a long history back to Biblical times.
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We experimented a lot to get a good image of this sign as you can see
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We began with a walk on the beach which was beautiful
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and also had some wonderful sculptures
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The beach had some wonderful ruins of old crusader era walls
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and was beautiful to walk along though at times, you had to climb thru
the rocks
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Then Benjamin and David found a turtle shell
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while Suzanne and Jane were finding sea shells
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When we climbed off the beach, we saw a ruin of the original
Crusader walls
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Then, it was time for lunch
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as everyone was hungry
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After this, we decided to go to another part of the National Park
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and see the preserved ruins.
We saw columns
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walls
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and statues.
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Before leaving, we stopped at the playground
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