Thursday April 13, 2006

The homesickness is setting in. I didn't really feel like getting up this morning. I was up a few hours before the others and did some laundry and organized my stuff to make packing easier. Only a few more days.

We ordered KFC for dinner, even that is different. The fries are thinner, and tasty, the chicken has a different type of coating and the salad is like the Mary Brown's coleslaw. It was good.

Later we went to a photo exhibit for one of Yasser's friends so we didn't bring our cameras, figuring there would be no opportunities for photos. I truly regret that decision.

Outside I saw the most beautiful scene ever (of course, the one time I don't have a camera available). The full moon was shining through the arches of the balcony, reflecting off the Nile, palm trees on the shore. Like a true scene from the past.

At the exhibit we met up with Rashwan and the four of us went and had some beer at a restaurant. Just the four of us went, Yasser didn't want to see or talk to Mohab, I guess the argument the night before was pretty bad.

At around 1 a.m. we went on a Nile tour in a little motor boat. The intensity of that river cannot be truly imagined until you are on it. I put my arm over the edge of the boat and dragged my hand through the water. Touched the Great Pyramid, and the Nile. I really truly kicked myself for not having my camera with me, but we didn't know we were going. We got home and to bed at around 2 a.m. I had to get up early as I made plans with Mohab to go to Saqqara in the morning.