Hello all

Sorry for the lag in updates....we havent had that much time in between port the past few countries.

And i don't know how of one this will be...i'll try to remember all that i did in Egypt.

In Egypt i signed up for my biggest SAS trip. it was 2 nights and 3 days in cairo, which was located about 1.5 hours from port! so i was really glad i signed up for this trip because they took care of all the hotel and pretty much all the food i guess too. Since i hadnt really had any big overnight trips with SAS i wasnt fed up with group trips yet. Some people had had enough of them and decided not to go even though they paid a lot of money for it already.

So we arrive at the hotel and it's like a frickin 5 star hotel!!! and the food was SOOOO good! any weight that i lost on this trip has been gained back since i hit the Med Sea! They had the chocolate balls that i want to try to make when i get home and i asked the guy what they were called and he said chocolate balls. Surprise!

Lets see the first day we um...went to the tomb of Imotep and um...did other stuff that i'll remember later. That night we had dinner on the nile on a boat. I got to ride a camel which was actually kind of freaky, but cool. Camels make the most interesting noises.

The next morning we woke up at like 4AM to go see the sunrise at the pyramids. It was amazing! we tried to ride another camel, but the tourist police was getting in the way. I acted like a complete tourist/american and did a cartwheel on the great pyramid. Then we went to the museum and got to see all of the King Tut artifacts including that mask that you always see in textbooks. it was so cool to see it in real life. i think they airbrush it in all of its photos.

Then lunch in of course a way too nice restaurant. i saw a Chillis, a TGIF, a Gold's gym, and of course hardees, McD, and KFC and Pizza hut, but i didnt eat at any of them. it was just weird to see them all sitting along the nile.

THat night we saw the sound and light show. on Halloween of all nights! how amazing is that to be in Egypt on Halloween!

We went to AUC for about an hour and got to see their rarebooks collection. but they werent given a lot of time to know we were coming to visit and didnt have any students for us to talk to.

So i went back the next day and spent the day talking with students and i wanted to maybe sit in on a class, but it didnt work out.

i know this is a weak update, but i've been at this cafe for too long trying to update my McAfee bc it expired and it was a pain. and bleh. and i wanna walk around some now.

so i'll tell you more about the Suex and Alexandria later on today.

DD