Saturday December 27, 2008

I slept in as I knew I wouldn't be etting a lot of sleep. Willow woke me up to huge hugs (the suck) she's so smart, she knows I'm leaving her. I did some basic housework and checked the airport forcast all day as it was yellow meaning a possible weather delay, it was rather foggy out. I left home at around 4:30, getting to the airport for 6:00 pm.

Take off was a little delayed, 9:15 instead of 8:30, but not due to the weather, because a transferring flight was delayed.

The flight was smooth, I watched "The Dark Knight" and slept for a bit.

Air Canada ROCKS!!!!

Sunday December 28, 2008

We arrived in Paris at 10:15am, now for the hard part, the transfer from Air Canada to Air France. Not just the average transfer, I had to go to a completely different terminal. I asked one person who said "exit and go right, yo will see a sign for the shuttle" so there I waited for a few minutes. It was freezing out, so I went back inside and asked someone else who said that it's just a five minute walk away. Once I got going the right way it was easy.

The second flight was just as smooth as the first. I watched "Hancock" with lunch (which was a really good lunch), then tried to get a bit of sleep. We landed in Cairo at 7:00 pm. I met up with Mohab, we went and checked into the hotel. Then went and got some dinner... Egyptian Pizza of course. Then headed to bed.

Monday December 29, 2008

A lazy day. We slept in, lazed around for a while, then went to visit his cousin.

After the visit with the cousins we went to see his parents. Of course mama was very happy.

Tuesday December 30, 2008

We went to Islamic Cairo to Beit-al-Sahaymi which is a beautiful old house built in 1648 and the other half in 1796.

We also went to Beit Khatoun which was built in 1486 and to Beit al-Harawi built in 1731.

After that we shopped at Khan-al-Khalili, had dinner, did more shopping, then headed back to the hotel.

Wednesday December 31, 2008

We got up fairly early and spent the day at Giza wandering around all three pyramids, going into tombs and Queen's pyramids as well as the Sphinx complex and Boat House. Then we watched the sunset over the pyramids from the cafe across the street. It was the perfect day!






















For New Years we went to the Greek Club for dinner.

Thursday January 1, 2009

We spent the day at his place getting ready for our trip to Aswan.

The train left the station at 9:30pm. We had a meal and went to sleep, on beds!

I must say, it's way better than the last train we took to Aswan (even the bathrooms) more tourists perhaps, or just a different class of travellers.

Friday January 2, 2009

We got to Aswan at noon and checked into the hotel.

We spent the afternoon on Elepantine Island and the Nilometre. Lots and lots of temples and other ancient sites all located in the same area.

We had coffee on the hotel rooftop while watching the sunset.

Then did some shopping in the evening and had Egyptian McDonald's for dinner, which actually is different than Canadian McDonald's.

Typical Egyptian spice market.