My song lyric post headings have apparently stumped some of you. Ha.

Okay, jeez-o-pete, I am in frickin' EGYPT and today I saw the frickin' PYRAMIDS and KING TUT'S TREASURES and MUMMIES and the SPHINX and I rode a CAMEL and I sat outside and smoked a shisha, ... I can't even begin to express how amazing today was. No photos were allowed inside the Egyptian museum, unfortunately. While I'm here at this hotel and have some good internet speeds I want to upload the photos.

23 days more until the USA!

This is the side of the Great Pyramid.
[Image]This is a photo that is in perfect focus... it's out the bus window at a mosque we were passing, we drove through a mighty sandstorm. The wind was fierce all day and I had so much sand everywhere it was... well, it wasn't pretty.
[Image]This is a fauxbelisk, as I termed it, outside the place where our Nile River Dinner Cruise departed from tonight. VERY cheesy and touristy, thank god it was free for us. Food was good, though.
[Image]This is actually from yesterday in Sharm-El-Sheikh, which is basically Cozumel meets Egypt. I bought a lovely shisha of my own, though. Today we also enjoyed this popular local pastime... you really have to try this to understand it.
[Image]A tomb wall at Giza.

[Image]In front of the 2nd pyramid, the only one with some of the limestone facing still intact around the top.
[Image]The Eiffel Tower.
[Image]This is my camel. I named him Osteoporosis, for the Egyptian goddess of bone decay. He was friendly, did not bite or spit, and was quite an effervescent conversationalist.
[Image]This is one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. This is one happy camel.
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I have a photo series from yesterday in S-E-S that basically details the extremities of the internationalism of its booming tourist trade - eight different types of "national food" restaurants (Italian, Chinese, etc.) within a block of each other. For now, though, I close... it has been a long, long day. This morning we could not reach the pier safely, so they chanced tendering us in to the pier. It was a rough ride and we made it, then two hours inland... tomorrow, Memphis and Sakara, the Alexandria, and we meet the ship. Woof.

LONG days. Amazing days. Still, one thing could make them all that much better. . .