Pension Vienna Cairo

... the belly dancer and whirling dervish great..the japanese tourist in front of us were a pain in the ****. It's a LIVE show people, you dont need to record the whole thing standing up so we all cant see! Anyways, they were sat down by the staff..we floated up and down the Nile, it was pretty good. I put in the feed back form that there wasn't enough ice cream ...by the time I had dessert all of it was gone and it wasn't replaced. The manager ...

I'm sorry I haven't updated this since i've been away, but Egypt just got internet this week and it's not running that smoothly as of yet.  I've been her\e for 5 days, and have experienced 108 deg. weather, black&white deserts, food that stays with you for what feels like months, the world's scariest cab drivers, and a dinner cruise on the Nile river...it stinks ...

... packed. I was glad Kisten and I had skipped it that afternoon, opting to wait until the evening where we could view the local color and shop in the cooler night air. As Kat and I wandered the bazaar looking for the others, I got my first taste of the outright displays of misogeny that the vendors offer tourists.

"Lcuky man, how many camels?" was the typical shout as Kat and I walked by. "How many camels?" was asked over and over again. No, I was not ...

... made flat bread that some ladies were making nearby with a little outside stone oven (it reminded me of Mexican ladies patting out tortillas.).

It was time to go to the big pyramid area in Giza. We drove around all through town, then there they were! It seemed funny to see them right next to town -- I had always pictured them out in the middle of the desert. They are on a high plateau, and you can see the entire town ...

... onto the bus until the doors barely closed! Maureen and I failed this task three times...every time a bus would pull up, we were so intimidated to push our way on, we just stood there and our nice patient taxi driver would smile and just wave his hand,." Go, Go...!" We finally got up the courage on our 4th bus ( I'm not kidding) knowing that our driver couldn't keep up his Patience forever and we had to go for it sometime! Ahh, we made it on and he looked ...

... boats and even a TGI Fridays right on the River Nile. The one cool thing that happened was when we docked, a local wedding party was already there waiting to get on our boat after us. You could hear lots of drums and singing from far away. It made us happy just to see people having such a great time and got us thinking about all our friends and family we hadn’t seen since our big day.
The next day we toured Cairo’s neighbors Memphis, Saqqara, and Giza. We stopped ...