Hezekiah's Tunnel

Today, since I had only one class this morning I decided to walk Hezekiah's tunnel. Let me first just say that this was one of the coolest experiences i've had here in Israel. Well, let me start with some facts about the tunnel:
The tunnel is a 1750 feet long, or 530 m, and was carved during Hezekiah's reign. The purpose of this tunnel was to bring water from one side of the city of David to the other. the tunnel goes from the Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam( Jesus healed a blind man by making mud with his saliva and told the man to wash in the Pool of Siloam). The shape of the tunnel forms an 'S' shape, and the believed reason is that the diggers were following a natural crack in the rock. Further exploration in this tunnel revealed the digging tools used, and the Siloam Inscription(an inscription by the diggers).
Hezekiah's tunnel is mentioned in 2nd Chronicles 32:30 which says "It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the city of david...". Again in 2nd Kings 20:20 we read "As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all of his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?".
As I left this morning to go walk this tunnel I had seen pictures of the tunnel, and had seen the entrance, but had not gone in. I was excited but also nervous since the tunnel is narrow, the roof is of the tunnel is not very high, and it is filled with water. JUC has student cards for everyone, so when I got to the passgate the attendant wasn't happy to see it since it got me in for free. I had to first walk through Warren's shaft (which is also a tunnel with a big hole where Archaeologists dug). Once I got through there I arrived at the entrance. Before I began I read some Bible passages to get the background of the tunnel. As I was reading, two other tourists past by, and as they saw the entrance (which was pitch black) and they stood there talking about how scary the tunnel would be(this made me feel great since I was walking it on my own). As I finished I entered the tunnel. At first you walk on a small platform and then stairs going into the water. I borrowed a flashlight so that 'I could see, and as I started walking through it was amazing. You could clearly see on the sides where rock had been scraped away and where the diggers dug. The most interesting thing about walking through was that the diggers, a couple times, dug in the wrong direction for about 5-6 feet so you could take a wrong turn. The water levels changed throughout the tunnel, at the beginning it was waste deep, then throughout the rest about ankle deep or a little more. As I got about half way you could hear the echoes from my feet sloshing in the tunnel and it was really freaky because it seemed as if someone was following me. So about every ten minutes I would keep looking back because of the echoes. I was amazed at how narrow the tunnel was, my backpack was rubbing the walls almost the entire time. Near the end it's amazing because the roof shoots up to about 10 feet high, and then about 10 minutes later the tunnel ends. The entire tunnel took about 45 minutes and it was great, freaky at times, but great. I'm sure that I'll walk the tunnel at least one more time before I leave...