Day 19, June 27, 2014

Woke at 8:00 again and had another wonderful bath and great breakfast.  I can eat all the olives I want to here!  We left with Raghab to go to the Nile River.  It is much larger than I thought.  Then we went to The Natioanal Egyptian Museum.  WOW!!!  Thousands and thousands of artifacts from thousands of years ago.  Some of their inventions are still used today  like the thimble.  We walked around seeing mummies. tombs and all sorts of ancient artifacts.  It was amazing! Did I mention how scary the driving is here.  I'm glad Gordon didn't rent a car.  Raghab gets us there safe!  I don't think Egypt got the research about how bad smoking is for you, because I think every man in Egypt smokes.  It's giving me a sore throat.  I asked Raghab (who has four children-2 are Drs., one is a lawyer and one is an engineer), who is 63 years old, what season it was here and he said summer.  Isn't that weird when in Kenya it was winter.  Did I mention it is H-O-T here????!!!!!!!  On the way back from the museum Raghab took us to a Christian souvenir shop who were friends of his.  We got three pyramids and the Sphynix.  Then he took us to a clothing shop and we got t-shirts for everyone.  Then back to the hotel to FaceTime Brody, but we found out that the time changed back one hour here today so we missed him.  He had already left for camp at McCallie.  So we will call him tonight.  Now it is a 6 hour difference since the time change.  Their weekends are Friday and Saturday for their religious reasons.  They work on Sundays.  It was very hazy today.  By the way at the papyrus museum, two of their guests had been Barbra Bush and Sting.  I just heard Howard Baker died.  He was a solid guy and a graduate of McCallie School.  We are relaxing now, because we have to leave at 6:00 am for our flight home.  Can't believe it is almost over.  Please, pray for safety for our flights from Cairo to Istanbul to Toronto to Atlanta.  Then a 2 hour drive home.  Thank you Bright School for this amazing beyond words lifetime experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Light and sound show last night at the Pyramids.

Light and sound show at Pyramids.

Woman baking bread in this outdoor oven this morning.

I've never seen a truck covered in barb wire before.  This was an army truck.

The Nile River!  We put our hands in it so we could say we touched the Nile.

A great shot with the palm trees and three pyramids.

A beautiful wall of flowers we passed while walking today in Cairo.

Adam hanging out with the Sphynix (I never spell it right) in front of the Egyptian Museum.

 Below is a young girl on her donkey in the road we were driving on.  We had to stop to let a camel pass at one time.