A last post from Egypt...

(Mt. Sinai in Egypt)


(St. Catherine's Monastery, Egypt)


(The Great Sphinx in Cairo)


(Giza Pyramids in Cairo)


(The Citadel of Saladin in Cairo)




(Street scenes from Cairo)




(Sailing on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt)

This will be my last post...our computer battery is almost depleted and we don't trust the converter here, so I am sure it will run down soon.

We crossed the border into Egypt early yesterday morning. We have a new guide named Noha, and she is really a hoot. She calls herself "Mother Pharoah" and we are all her little pharoahs...sounds cheesy, but she really is great fun and knows her way around. We stopped at St. Catherine's Monastery where Moses experienced the burning bush..and it is still a working monastery. Then we traveled through a sandstorm to Cairo...didn't make it in until about 9:30 that night...boy that was a LONG day. Today we got up early and went to the pyramids...even got to go inside one to the tomb room. That was a little creepy because the passageway was only about 4 feet tall, and we had to go down a long ways and then back up and into the room. It was amazing! Then we saw the Sphinx, had a demonstration on how papyrus is made, saw the tomb of Idut, (a nine year old princess) and went to a rug factory, and I think that was it. Tomorrow we go to the Egyptian museum, the Mohammed Ali mosque and a Coptic church and I don't know what else. Egypt is such a contrast of the old and new combined. We had lunch at a wonderful outdoor restaurant today, and we could have stayed there all day. What fun.

We are on our own all day Saturday, then have to be at the airport for a 1:45 am flight home. We are pooped, but we have had a lot of fun. We look forward to being home again...and washing all the sand out of our clothes! Love to all of you!!