Saying Goodbye to Cairo...

We have been in Cairo for over a week now, it has been a whirlwind of an experiences and now Pat and I will be venturing to see the rest of Egypt. We leave tonight (Wednesday) to Siwa the famous osasis about 600km from Egypt. We are traveling with Ahmed, Menna and her brother. It will take about eight to ten hours.
Then we are traveling to Alexandria and then up the Nile to Luxor, Asawn, Abu Simbel and the Red Sea. We wanted to let everyone know our plans because we will be away from a computer for at least a week depending on where we are staying. We will be back in Cairo on October 10th! Lots of love from the Sweet P's~

Pryamids and dinner with an Egyptian family

We saw them. We saw the Pyramids. Our day started at six where we traveled with our new German friends and our old friend Ahmed, whose apartment were staying at. Go find yourself a National Geographic with pictures of the pyramids and stare long and hard and please, let us tell you that they alone are worth the trip to Egypt. These megalithic testaments to human inginuity that have withstood the literal sands of time are beyond what can be expressed in words. You may find yourself tilting at windmills but try, please try to wrap your mind around this...we descended, with heads bowed and backs bent, into the very heart of the Pyramid of Khafre. The pyramids, that you have seen since before you were born...not 3 hours after waking up, we found ourselves underneath more than 6 million tons of limestone brick.

Post pyramids, we came home for a quick nap and, having fasted all day in the spirit of Ramadan, went for breakfast at Ahmeds girlfriends, Mena, house for a feast, where her mother Amani prepared Molokhia, some red stuff, some dolmalike treats, rice, and some other red stuff with beans and carrots in it. In spite of my lack of names, the meal was TDF (to die for..duh). We have just finished our night (at 1 am) with shisha and tea and are preparing for our second trip to the Egyptian Museum, this time with a tour guide to show us how, exactly, to get to the room of Tutankhamun.

Thats all for now.

For the record, the keyboard refuses to equip us with the tools necessary for proper punctuation so bear with us.

Much love,

2SweetPs

What have we been doing?!?!

I must begin by saying that Pat and I could have never dreamed of our first few days in Cairo to ever be this amazing. We are currently couchsurfing in an apartment right outside of Cairo, we have the apartment all to ourselves, it has airconditioning and internet. A few German couchsurfers will be joining us tomorrow night. Our host, Ahmed has an internship during the day but at night he has given us the tour of a life time. Our first night we went on a double date with Ahmed and his girlfriend Amani, we took a night cruise on the Nile. It was a smooth and relaxing sail on the Nile, however, we could still hear the sounds of car horns from the night traffic. -The next day Ahmed's friend Mo offered to take us to the Egyptian Museum. This is the largest Egyptian Museum in the world, we spent hours in the massive building viewing ancient artifacts-some of th artifacts were not even in a case. It was truly unbelievable. We paid a little extra to see the Royal Mummies, this was a small room where exposed mummies laid in glass cases. Egyptians who lived over 4000 years ago right before our eyes- Pat said we were living in a National Geographic magazine and it is true and it is just the begining!
We arrived to Cairo during the middle of Ramadan and it has been interesting to see the nightlife from 6pm to 4am this is when Muslims break their fast and the streets are filled with people walking and taxi's and cars storming the roads.
Tomorrow brings us another adventure with perspective volunteering with the Cairo Rotary Club and as we itch to see the pyramids we eagerly wait for our German couchsurfers so we can make one big trip!

We made it to EGYPT!

After two days of traveling Pat and I have finally made it to Cairo! We are safe and exhausted! We were welcomed at the airport by Ahmed and his girlfriend, which was nice because the airport scene was a litte overwhelming. We arrived at midnight so we will report on more when we are fully awake!