Coach Connell's African Adventure: Day 18, June 26, 2014

Slept till 8:00 am and took a wonderful bath. Ate a awesome breakfast buffet. This hotel is called MovienPick or something like that. Met our tour guide named Raghad and he drove us to a papyrus museum were we learned how paper was made a thousand years ago. Very interesting process made from a green plant, not a tree. Of course we bought some. Then we listen to a perfume presentation which only Adam was interested in for you know who (Erica!!) haha. Then we had one unbelievable day. We each had our own camel and rode to the Pyramids across the Sahara Desert. It was hot!!!! They put a headpiece on Adam and me, so we looked like the Prince and Princess of Arabia. Gordon had a hat on. When we got off the camels at the first pyramid, Adam started climbing the pyramid. He was about half way up before the guide started waving for him to come down before the police got him. Of course, when he got down we saw a sign that said "NO CLIMBING". We got to go inside of the medium size one and saw the tomb. Everything has been taken out of them and put into the Egyptian Museum that we will go to tomorrow. We rode to the Sphinx, but you couldn't get close to it. During WWII the Italians shot this nose off of it for target practice. What a dumb move! Everything was just surreal!!! I couldn't believe we were there. We spent the day there and then drove back to our hotel around 4:00 pm. The driving here is crazier then Nairobi. There are no lanes or traffic lights. Four lanes of cars are fighting for two lanes. They honk at each other and nearly miss hitting or scraping each other. I jumped twice because I knew we were going to be hit. Facetimed with Anna and April. Then blogged. We are going to eat dinner, then go to a light and sound show at the Pyramids tonight at 8:00 pm. Then back to hotel and crash again. I'll tell about the light show tomorrow.