My Trip to Egypt: Friday, April 7, 2006

I woke up to the sound of "Jude, we have no water." A water pipe broke down the street causing us to have no water. *sigh* So, we washed with baby wipes and cleaned up the best we could.

Yasser and M

ohab came over and we went to The Egyptian Museum where I got my nickname "Her Royal Highness Queen Jude The First" There are many artifacts from digs there. We saw Tut's tomb and all the findings that were found within it including the burial mask and sarcophagus. Amazing!

We got hit on by a guard, the freak wouldn't leave us alone (the guys had gone out for a smoke). We had to leave the area we were supposed to meet the guys because the guard just wouldn't leave us alone. When they returned we were telling them about what happened and I guess got a little loud where a tour guide started shouting at us. The guys told him off and so he went and got the police, after some hassel with that (I thought we were going to get kicked out) all was settled and fine.

From there we went for 'lunch' more like dinner seeing that it was around 5:00 and had Koshari again (That stuff is sooooo good, I need to get a recipe). Mohab had to leave for

a bit for work so the three of us went back to the apartment and showered.... finally. He returned and we went to the Cairo Tower to see Cairo from above. Walking in the guys had to show their I.D. (as they did at the museum) after a lengthy discussion we found out that there is a card called a friendship card that apparently you are supposed to get if touring friends around in Egypt. We didn't know this, and the embassy didn't tell us when we called them. The views were amazing, you could see as far as Giza from there.

We walked back home and Rashwan (who had picked us up from the airport) came over and the five of us had a few drinks and many, many laughs. We made up movied titles to go with the events of the night. They are as follows:

1) The Cork Between Us