Egypt

So the great adventure began with us waiting in the airport for twelve hours, yes we were worried about driving somewhere we had never been in the dark, but it ended up okay we all got some sleep and we all had fun joking around.

Once we got to Egypt we had to take a bus ride to Cairo it was three hours, which most of us slept. We then went to the Sphinx light and history show that night. We started the tour on Wednesday, it started with seeing the Cairo Museum, which was nice, but really crowded, after the museum we headed to the to the Papyrus museum where we were taught how to make papyrus paper. We then head to the Pyramids of Giza, they were so beautiful. I was so excited when we got there. I actually was able to walk on the Pyramid of Giza and get my picture taken on it. The pictures I got of it do not do it justice. We wrapped up our day heading to the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar. We were all so excited to be able to walk around and shop in the open air market. We were waked around with an armed guard; it kind of felt like being herded like cattle, but it was so much fun.

The next day we had off in Cairo so all of us went back to the bazaar, which was fun, this was the place where I was able to get all my souvenirs. After a long day of shopping where headed back to the Hotel to have some dinner and get cleaned up. After that we headed to the ballet to see the Nutcracker. It was so great to have great friends and to get to see something that reminded me of home.

On Christmas Eve we headed to Alexandria were we toured all day. The drive took us four hours because of the fog, but we were happy with the drive since we saw over nine car accidents on the way, but we were lucky to not have one. Once in Alexandria we headed to the catacomb, then to the roman theater, after that to see the a few more land marks. The day was long so all of us were pretty happy to be back at the hotel once we got there.

On Christmas Day the small group of us headed to the Alexandria Library the Largest Library in the world. It was a great time we walked the whole way there, after visiting we went to a show at the planetarium. After the show we walked back to the hotel, did a little more shopping on the way, once at the hotel we again freshen up and then headed to dinner. We were lucky to find a place that was having a special Christmas dinner. So we ended up having a four course dinner that night with Cream of Mushroom soup, pastier with chicken sauce, roasted turkey and a chocolate Yule log for dessert. After dinner we head back stuffed and packed to head back home.

We headed home on the 26^th of December, I was lucky and got back to my house by 11:00 pm. I was able to unpack and then shower before I headed to bed. I have posted a slide show of some of the pictures from Egypt I hope you all enjoy.