Blogger is giving me a lot of grief trying to download pictures so I finally gave up and uploaded them to MySpace. That means you'll have to go to my Egypt 08 folder in my pictures on my MySpace page.
Most of you have MySpace accounts, if you don't, you should. You don't have to have an actual profile on MySpace but you will need to create a login so you can view my pictures. It's worth it, trust me.
Here is the link to my MySpace page. Once there, click on the "Pics" link underneath my profile picture. Then you can click on the Egypt 08 folder and all our pictures (that made the cut anyway) are there with captions. Fun.
http://www.myspace.com/CrystalthNinjaChick
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
AMERICA, F&$# YEAH!
We are home in the land of the FREEEEE!!! Free water, free toilet paper, free drumming!
That's all I can post now. It's 12:30am PST but 1:30pm Cairo time so we are all awake and delirious even though we've been up for over 30 hours straight (no sleep on the plane).
Time to take some Tylenol PM then sleep for a day. We will blog more and post some pics tomorrow...today...whenever. :-)
That's all I can post now. It's 12:30am PST but 1:30pm Cairo time so we are all awake and delirious even though we've been up for over 30 hours straight (no sleep on the plane).
Time to take some Tylenol PM then sleep for a day. We will blog more and post some pics tomorrow...today...whenever. :-)
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Power of the Pyramids
I'm not sure that words can describe the experience that we had today. I'm getting emotional just recalling it for this blog. I guess I'll just go in order of the day because beyond our pyramid experience it was a fun day.
We woke up and went for a morning camel ride - that was fun! My camel was HUGE but he was sick. We've been calling the stomach/diarrhea sickness most of us have had "adventure safari" because at one of the pharmacies we visited it had a small portable toilet for kids called "Adventure Safari." One of us joked about how we might need that and the name stuck. Anyway, my camel was adventure safaring all over his legs, poor guy. He would not gallop for nothing, which makes sense. It was fun to lazily lank along the sands of Giza. We got some amazing pictures and the Mids are just amazing. I even got to ride a spirited horse for a spell after my camel ride. Then we went to the Giza Plateau for more pictures, then we went to the museum of the solar boat that they found next to the Mids. 5 of them buried all around - looks just like the boat shrines do in the glyphs. Then it was time for our private pyramid time. Seriously, they kicked everyone out of the Great Mid and let us go in for 2 hours of uninterrupted time!
What would you do with 2 hours of private time in the Great Pyramid of Giza?
We climbed to the Queen's Chamber (it's called that but the Queen wasn't really buried there, only the King) and did the power belly dance - it was amazing. Very powerful, very moving to be dancing in the Mid. Then we went to the room with the great stone where the king's mummy was placed. This room, if you can even imagine it, is all granite and only a small 2 foot crawlspace to get to it then it opens in to a large room with a granite sarcofagus (sp?). The sounds in this room bounce right off the walls and the acquostics (again sp?) are like no other - this room cannot be duplicated. So we just started doing what felt natural for us. Some danced, some prayed, some simply sat there. Soon we were all moving and dancing to whatever inspired us and the music, just one simply drum, was amazing! Some of us even got down to the bare bones - it was an experience of a lifetime. Just as we were really getting in to ourselves and the spirits were high - a creepy guard came down asking for more money!! When we almost bit his head off he demanded we hand over the drum. We refused. We had paid a lot of money for our private time and we were told we could sing, dance, whatever. This guy would not leave and all of sudden we were yelling and a lot of negative energy was swirling around us and within us. Some girls were crying, others were yelling at the creepy guard (he wasn't even in uniform) and even though Eric, our drummer, left with the drums to go find our guides and clean this mess up, the guard insisted there were still drums and would not leave. We practically forced him out screaming and yelling. Then we were very startled, sad, and worked up. We decided it was time for the grounding dance, the same one we did in Dendara.
This is more of a stretching, spirtual movement where we mime (if you will) gathering the earth's energy and love and capturing it in our hearts then giving it back to the universe. At one point we make a gesture where we open our hearts to the ____ of the East/West/North/South (we do it in all 4 directions). And each of us got to call out whatever we wanted to open our hearts to and in that granite room it was amazing - we sounded surreal, a thousand voices all calling out names and places and people that we held dear. Very eery but very beautiful. At the end of the grounding dance we end on the floor and someone started drumming on their belly - then we drummed on the floors with our hands, then the walls, then we started omming in with our voices - they can take our drum, they cannot take our voices and bodies! So we started making music with our bodies and the sounds and noises almost seemed to summon the ancients! What I am saying may sound crazy but even Mr. Logic (Dane) himself was mesmerized by the sounds and even ommed in himself. I have to say that was one of the most powerful moments I've ever felt. To have our fun, a simple little drum, taken from us, and then to turn it around into a positive and make our own music was just breathtaking. An experience I will never, ever forget.
I'm out of time. We have a party to go to at the foot of the Sphinx and then it's off to America. I love you, friends and family.
We woke up and went for a morning camel ride - that was fun! My camel was HUGE but he was sick. We've been calling the stomach/diarrhea sickness most of us have had "adventure safari" because at one of the pharmacies we visited it had a small portable toilet for kids called "Adventure Safari." One of us joked about how we might need that and the name stuck. Anyway, my camel was adventure safaring all over his legs, poor guy. He would not gallop for nothing, which makes sense. It was fun to lazily lank along the sands of Giza. We got some amazing pictures and the Mids are just amazing. I even got to ride a spirited horse for a spell after my camel ride. Then we went to the Giza Plateau for more pictures, then we went to the museum of the solar boat that they found next to the Mids. 5 of them buried all around - looks just like the boat shrines do in the glyphs. Then it was time for our private pyramid time. Seriously, they kicked everyone out of the Great Mid and let us go in for 2 hours of uninterrupted time!
What would you do with 2 hours of private time in the Great Pyramid of Giza?
We climbed to the Queen's Chamber (it's called that but the Queen wasn't really buried there, only the King) and did the power belly dance - it was amazing. Very powerful, very moving to be dancing in the Mid. Then we went to the room with the great stone where the king's mummy was placed. This room, if you can even imagine it, is all granite and only a small 2 foot crawlspace to get to it then it opens in to a large room with a granite sarcofagus (sp?). The sounds in this room bounce right off the walls and the acquostics (again sp?) are like no other - this room cannot be duplicated. So we just started doing what felt natural for us. Some danced, some prayed, some simply sat there. Soon we were all moving and dancing to whatever inspired us and the music, just one simply drum, was amazing! Some of us even got down to the bare bones - it was an experience of a lifetime. Just as we were really getting in to ourselves and the spirits were high - a creepy guard came down asking for more money!! When we almost bit his head off he demanded we hand over the drum. We refused. We had paid a lot of money for our private time and we were told we could sing, dance, whatever. This guy would not leave and all of sudden we were yelling and a lot of negative energy was swirling around us and within us. Some girls were crying, others were yelling at the creepy guard (he wasn't even in uniform) and even though Eric, our drummer, left with the drums to go find our guides and clean this mess up, the guard insisted there were still drums and would not leave. We practically forced him out screaming and yelling. Then we were very startled, sad, and worked up. We decided it was time for the grounding dance, the same one we did in Dendara.
This is more of a stretching, spirtual movement where we mime (if you will) gathering the earth's energy and love and capturing it in our hearts then giving it back to the universe. At one point we make a gesture where we open our hearts to the ____ of the East/West/North/South (we do it in all 4 directions). And each of us got to call out whatever we wanted to open our hearts to and in that granite room it was amazing - we sounded surreal, a thousand voices all calling out names and places and people that we held dear. Very eery but very beautiful. At the end of the grounding dance we end on the floor and someone started drumming on their belly - then we drummed on the floors with our hands, then the walls, then we started omming in with our voices - they can take our drum, they cannot take our voices and bodies! So we started making music with our bodies and the sounds and noises almost seemed to summon the ancients! What I am saying may sound crazy but even Mr. Logic (Dane) himself was mesmerized by the sounds and even ommed in himself. I have to say that was one of the most powerful moments I've ever felt. To have our fun, a simple little drum, taken from us, and then to turn it around into a positive and make our own music was just breathtaking. An experience I will never, ever forget.
I'm out of time. We have a party to go to at the foot of the Sphinx and then it's off to America. I love you, friends and family.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Back in Cairo
Well we are back in Cairo after a long, long couple of days traveling. I can't quite remember where I last left off and I have my Temple of Phalie handwritten journal to post later when I can, but for now we thought we'd say hello and that we've survived our trip to Abu Simbel.
So just in the last 24 hours we've gotten off the cruise boat, flown to Abu Simbel, visit the temple there, dinner at a Nubian village house, then back on a plane back to Aswan, then a perfume shop, then back on a plane to Cairo, then an hour long bus ride back to Le Meridian. We are all very, very tired and weary. We have our biggest day tomorrow, waking up at 6:30 (one of our later wake up calls if you can imagine that), then camel riding, private time at the pyramid - meaning NO ONE else will be allowed there, can you believe that! Then free time (pack), then dinner and a show at the Guardian Travel guide's house. Should be loads of fun. We have a 4 am wake up call on Monday to make our 9 am flight. I'm half wondering if we should just try to stay up all night on Sunday. We'll see.
So since I have time, I'll blog in brief about the Isis Temple. First of all, I looked amazing. I wore a white temple looking dress with a white head scarf and my weave. Except I couldn't for the life of me get my weave to snap in place so it kept falling out. And it wouldn't just fall out, it would jetison across the sidewalk, land with the biggest thud so everyone would turn and look and stare at the fluff on the temple floor. Nice, Crystal. I still looked good and pulled it off with the classic "My WEAVE!" cry. Anyway - Walid (not Wah-Lid) made sure to go over the temple in detail, not leaving one thing out. He gave us the grand tour (for me he said) and then gave us extra free time so I could do whatever it was that I wanted to do. So Delilah, knowing what Isis means to me, directed a dance of honor in the temple halls. We all did the same movements in the sunlight with the Spring flowers and Nile waters as back drop - amazing. After the dance we went to the waters edge on a lookout about 20 feet above the water. There was a pile of dried white flowers (prayer time just started) in the corner that I picked up and playfully threw over my head and let blow away in the wind. It ended up being a beautiful gesture and got the attention of not only my group but the tourists on the waters below. I could hear their gasps of amazement from all the way up top where I was. So I decided I would be like a goddess for just a minute and dance with my shimmering golden veil for them. It was amazing. And Delilah just smiled at me - it was beautiful. After people took pictures and moved on, I stayed in my perch. Walid and the guides from our travel group stayed behind in a corner a ways away to stay watch though. Anyway, I decided on the fly that my tribute to my daughter would be to take a handful of dried flowers, make a prayer for her (and especially tell her how much I miss her and wish she was with me on this trip), and release the flowers to the wind. Then I shed a few tears, quieted down and rejoined the group. It was absolutely perfect. Later that night we visited the Temple again (which really is an amazing structure) for the sound and light show. I got to dip my hands in the Nile and be on my island once more. Delilah stayed with me most of the trip and even held my hand for a moment during the show. I thought that was very sweet mostly because until that moment I never really knew what Delilah thought of me. Now I know for certain. It was great moment for us and for me.
We can't download pictures. We just tried but it was giving us grief. We may try again in a minute after we look at comments and such.
Love you guys! We really, really, really miss home!! We are going to F*#$ up a pizza and cheeseburger and fries and Starbucks and all sorts of other stuff when we get home! And cuddle our cats, and bother our friends, and relish our bed and bathroom.
So just in the last 24 hours we've gotten off the cruise boat, flown to Abu Simbel, visit the temple there, dinner at a Nubian village house, then back on a plane back to Aswan, then a perfume shop, then back on a plane to Cairo, then an hour long bus ride back to Le Meridian. We are all very, very tired and weary. We have our biggest day tomorrow, waking up at 6:30 (one of our later wake up calls if you can imagine that), then camel riding, private time at the pyramid - meaning NO ONE else will be allowed there, can you believe that! Then free time (pack), then dinner and a show at the Guardian Travel guide's house. Should be loads of fun. We have a 4 am wake up call on Monday to make our 9 am flight. I'm half wondering if we should just try to stay up all night on Sunday. We'll see.
So since I have time, I'll blog in brief about the Isis Temple. First of all, I looked amazing. I wore a white temple looking dress with a white head scarf and my weave. Except I couldn't for the life of me get my weave to snap in place so it kept falling out. And it wouldn't just fall out, it would jetison across the sidewalk, land with the biggest thud so everyone would turn and look and stare at the fluff on the temple floor. Nice, Crystal. I still looked good and pulled it off with the classic "My WEAVE!" cry. Anyway - Walid (not Wah-Lid) made sure to go over the temple in detail, not leaving one thing out. He gave us the grand tour (for me he said) and then gave us extra free time so I could do whatever it was that I wanted to do. So Delilah, knowing what Isis means to me, directed a dance of honor in the temple halls. We all did the same movements in the sunlight with the Spring flowers and Nile waters as back drop - amazing. After the dance we went to the waters edge on a lookout about 20 feet above the water. There was a pile of dried white flowers (prayer time just started) in the corner that I picked up and playfully threw over my head and let blow away in the wind. It ended up being a beautiful gesture and got the attention of not only my group but the tourists on the waters below. I could hear their gasps of amazement from all the way up top where I was. So I decided I would be like a goddess for just a minute and dance with my shimmering golden veil for them. It was amazing. And Delilah just smiled at me - it was beautiful. After people took pictures and moved on, I stayed in my perch. Walid and the guides from our travel group stayed behind in a corner a ways away to stay watch though. Anyway, I decided on the fly that my tribute to my daughter would be to take a handful of dried flowers, make a prayer for her (and especially tell her how much I miss her and wish she was with me on this trip), and release the flowers to the wind. Then I shed a few tears, quieted down and rejoined the group. It was absolutely perfect. Later that night we visited the Temple again (which really is an amazing structure) for the sound and light show. I got to dip my hands in the Nile and be on my island once more. Delilah stayed with me most of the trip and even held my hand for a moment during the show. I thought that was very sweet mostly because until that moment I never really knew what Delilah thought of me. Now I know for certain. It was great moment for us and for me.
We can't download pictures. We just tried but it was giving us grief. We may try again in a minute after we look at comments and such.
Love you guys! We really, really, really miss home!! We are going to F*#$ up a pizza and cheeseburger and fries and Starbucks and all sorts of other stuff when we get home! And cuddle our cats, and bother our friends, and relish our bed and bathroom.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Brought to You by the Nile
I'm writing right now on a laptop in our cabin while we sail South on the Nile. We have our balcony deck door open and are breathing in the wonderful African air and enjoying another restful day at river.
We visited the Temple of Edfu this morning which was built for the god Horus. Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris. I can tell anyone who cares what the stories are or I will blog later, but now we are on a strict 30 min time limit.
Yesterday we rested and napped and then got dressed up for a dance performance. After dinner we sailed for a while, we even went under a bridge that was so low that I could touch the underside of it while SITTING on the sundeck! We had to duck to make sure we wouldn't get offed by the bridge. We went to bed early, we were tired from doing nothing all day.
Right now we are sailing to Kom Obo or something like that - the crocodile temple! We will visit that for a few hours then have tea, dinner, then a galabaya party. The galabaya is the long tee shirt thing that Egyptians wear. Dane bought two! I have a gold and black one that I bought that's beautiful.
Tomorrow is my Isis day and I cannot wait. It will be amazing. Then we have a Nubian party in the village then Friday we check out and fly to Abu Simbel.
And now a message from Dane....
Howdy folks. This has been an awesome vacation so far. I had always thought that tours sounded kinda cheesey, but this type of a tour - with a bunch of people you at least sorta know, is great. Everything is high class. Everything and everyone is extremely nice. The concept that we are blogging from the Nile is just wild to me. Viva technology I suppose. The river is HUGE! It doesn't feel like a river when you are on it. It is simply too massive. Also, this place is hot. Hot hot HOT! For once Crystal is comfortable, but I am pretty sure I am going to return as one big freckle. In short, this has already far exceeded my expectations. There really is too much to talk about in this short time, but just thinking about the places we have been and how old they are astounds me. Truly amazing.
Dane Out!
A donkey just brayed at us. So we are going to try to upload one picture now, but we aren't promising anything. We love to read the comments and still miss everyone very much.
I'll try to post tomorrow night but probably won't be able to post again till Saturday or Sunday. I can't believe this trip is closer to over. Feels like we just got here. :-(
We visited the Temple of Edfu this morning which was built for the god Horus. Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris. I can tell anyone who cares what the stories are or I will blog later, but now we are on a strict 30 min time limit.
Yesterday we rested and napped and then got dressed up for a dance performance. After dinner we sailed for a while, we even went under a bridge that was so low that I could touch the underside of it while SITTING on the sundeck! We had to duck to make sure we wouldn't get offed by the bridge. We went to bed early, we were tired from doing nothing all day.
Right now we are sailing to Kom Obo or something like that - the crocodile temple! We will visit that for a few hours then have tea, dinner, then a galabaya party. The galabaya is the long tee shirt thing that Egyptians wear. Dane bought two! I have a gold and black one that I bought that's beautiful.
Tomorrow is my Isis day and I cannot wait. It will be amazing. Then we have a Nubian party in the village then Friday we check out and fly to Abu Simbel.
And now a message from Dane....
Howdy folks. This has been an awesome vacation so far. I had always thought that tours sounded kinda cheesey, but this type of a tour - with a bunch of people you at least sorta know, is great. Everything is high class. Everything and everyone is extremely nice. The concept that we are blogging from the Nile is just wild to me. Viva technology I suppose. The river is HUGE! It doesn't feel like a river when you are on it. It is simply too massive. Also, this place is hot. Hot hot HOT! For once Crystal is comfortable, but I am pretty sure I am going to return as one big freckle. In short, this has already far exceeded my expectations. There really is too much to talk about in this short time, but just thinking about the places we have been and how old they are astounds me. Truly amazing.
Dane Out!
A donkey just brayed at us. So we are going to try to upload one picture now, but we aren't promising anything. We love to read the comments and still miss everyone very much.
I'll try to post tomorrow night but probably won't be able to post again till Saturday or Sunday. I can't believe this trip is closer to over. Feels like we just got here. :-(
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
AWESOME!!!!
So yesterday we visited Karnak and Luxor temple. They were right in town so it was nice not to be on a bus all day like we were for Abydos and Dendara. We had a good time and decided that the Egyptians used cookie cutters for the glyphs, though our guide, who I didn't realize is a reknowned archaeologist and Egyptologist - he was there when they CAT scanned King Tut! Anyway - he says there were no cookie cutters. I told him I disagree. Actually I'm very infatuated with this guy Wah-lid (pronounced waa-leed). He has not said "I don't know" to one single question anyone has asked. He's so full of knowledge and nice and funny. Great guy. So we went to the temples and had fun. Very relaxing.
Then we visited the papyrus shop and saw a demonstration on how they made it. Then I saw this breathtaking painting. It had gold paint and was HUGE - like 4 or 5 feet long and at least 3 feet wide. I was drawn to it like a moth to flame. I can't describe what its pull was - it was just a temple afterall. Then the guy told me it was the Temple of Phalie - Isis's temple. I get teary eyed just retelling the story now. In that moment I knew I needed to have it no matter what the cost. Lets just say it wasn't cheap. The shop, which was ironically named Isis Papyrus, immediately identified me as a high roller and brought out drinks and lavished gifts on me. They let me take 700 pounds (I think that's about $150 US dollars) worth of papyrus paintings for free. The painting is amazing. After all that we were done spending for the day. And week. And month. :-/
We checked in to the cruise at about 4 and had a late lunch then watched the sunset by the pool on the deck. It was nice to dip in the water. The boats here are all docked together right next to each other. Ours is really nice. The bathroom shower has over 5 water spouts that spray at hip, chest, and head level plus a detachable head. The rooms are amazing, the food is delicious, and the staff are very nice (and cute). Egyptian men are just plain gorgeous. That's all there is to it. We got all dressed up for dinner and then watched a show - a male bellydancer that I'm going to marry. He was like 6'5 and build like a horse. He spun around like a dervish (Google it) for 15 minutes straight!! And then spun a skirt thing over his head, it was awesome. Then we watched a female bellydancer that was not that great. She looked bored and was chewing gum during her performance. Nice.
After dinner we danced for a bit and snuck our vodka and rum in "water" bottles and got tanked. We stayed out on the top deck till 3 am begging Wah-Lid to tell us more Egyptian stories - we were like a bunch of kids. TELL US MORE!! THEN WHAT HAPPENED!! OMG!! Victoria broke a canvas chair when she sat in it, which is funny because she's not heavy at all. Very beautiful. As she says, she split it from bow to stern. Hee-haw-larious. We got Wah-Lid to cut loose and drink a lemonade. Those crazy Arabs. We actually had a great, great time.
Today we shoved off (we were actually docked all night) at 7 am so that's when I woke up all hungover. I went to the sundeck to cook my hangover away. Spent all morning in the pool, watching the Nile float by. We have been ported for the past 3 hours waiting for our turn to pass the lock. It's great because vendors come up on little dingy boats and literally throw items on the boat at you and get you to buy their wares. You try stuff on and then throw it back and say "No way!" Then they throw something else at you. We really got our haggle on today - great practice! ***We interrupt this story to tell you that What Child is This - yes, the Cmas song, is playing overhead in the ship*** Dane and I had a lot of fun with our vendor Ali and ended up getting a male and female Egyptian garby thing, two Nefertiti towels, and a flying carpet (I wish) for too much money. But we haggled him down. We felt it was a fair price for what we got. We've spent so much money on this trip, OMG. We are going to be sooooo broke.
So today is really a day of rest. No plans, no activities, just rest. Lunch is in 20 minutes then I may take a nap then we will have tea, then a bellydance show (our group) then cocktail hour, then dinner, then party. I think tomorrow is Edfu then the next day is the Temple of Phalie. I could be way off on that though. I really have no idea what day it is.
This trip has been so nice. Everything has far surpassed our expectations and we have had nothing but first class accommodations, top notch service, and the best of the best with everything. I would recommend Guardian Travel to anyone and everyone.
Well that's about it for now. Again, sorry we can't post pictures put I can once back in the States. I will do a whole picture essay. We miss everyone. Wish you guys could see what we are seeing. It truly is an enchanted land.
Then we visited the papyrus shop and saw a demonstration on how they made it. Then I saw this breathtaking painting. It had gold paint and was HUGE - like 4 or 5 feet long and at least 3 feet wide. I was drawn to it like a moth to flame. I can't describe what its pull was - it was just a temple afterall. Then the guy told me it was the Temple of Phalie - Isis's temple. I get teary eyed just retelling the story now. In that moment I knew I needed to have it no matter what the cost. Lets just say it wasn't cheap. The shop, which was ironically named Isis Papyrus, immediately identified me as a high roller and brought out drinks and lavished gifts on me. They let me take 700 pounds (I think that's about $150 US dollars) worth of papyrus paintings for free. The painting is amazing. After all that we were done spending for the day. And week. And month. :-/
We checked in to the cruise at about 4 and had a late lunch then watched the sunset by the pool on the deck. It was nice to dip in the water. The boats here are all docked together right next to each other. Ours is really nice. The bathroom shower has over 5 water spouts that spray at hip, chest, and head level plus a detachable head. The rooms are amazing, the food is delicious, and the staff are very nice (and cute). Egyptian men are just plain gorgeous. That's all there is to it. We got all dressed up for dinner and then watched a show - a male bellydancer that I'm going to marry. He was like 6'5 and build like a horse. He spun around like a dervish (Google it) for 15 minutes straight!! And then spun a skirt thing over his head, it was awesome. Then we watched a female bellydancer that was not that great. She looked bored and was chewing gum during her performance. Nice.
After dinner we danced for a bit and snuck our vodka and rum in "water" bottles and got tanked. We stayed out on the top deck till 3 am begging Wah-Lid to tell us more Egyptian stories - we were like a bunch of kids. TELL US MORE!! THEN WHAT HAPPENED!! OMG!! Victoria broke a canvas chair when she sat in it, which is funny because she's not heavy at all. Very beautiful. As she says, she split it from bow to stern. Hee-haw-larious. We got Wah-Lid to cut loose and drink a lemonade. Those crazy Arabs. We actually had a great, great time.
Today we shoved off (we were actually docked all night) at 7 am so that's when I woke up all hungover. I went to the sundeck to cook my hangover away. Spent all morning in the pool, watching the Nile float by. We have been ported for the past 3 hours waiting for our turn to pass the lock. It's great because vendors come up on little dingy boats and literally throw items on the boat at you and get you to buy their wares. You try stuff on and then throw it back and say "No way!" Then they throw something else at you. We really got our haggle on today - great practice! ***We interrupt this story to tell you that What Child is This - yes, the Cmas song, is playing overhead in the ship*** Dane and I had a lot of fun with our vendor Ali and ended up getting a male and female Egyptian garby thing, two Nefertiti towels, and a flying carpet (I wish) for too much money. But we haggled him down. We felt it was a fair price for what we got. We've spent so much money on this trip, OMG. We are going to be sooooo broke.
So today is really a day of rest. No plans, no activities, just rest. Lunch is in 20 minutes then I may take a nap then we will have tea, then a bellydance show (our group) then cocktail hour, then dinner, then party. I think tomorrow is Edfu then the next day is the Temple of Phalie. I could be way off on that though. I really have no idea what day it is.
This trip has been so nice. Everything has far surpassed our expectations and we have had nothing but first class accommodations, top notch service, and the best of the best with everything. I would recommend Guardian Travel to anyone and everyone.
Well that's about it for now. Again, sorry we can't post pictures put I can once back in the States. I will do a whole picture essay. We miss everyone. Wish you guys could see what we are seeing. It truly is an enchanted land.
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