Day 2....Cairo

Cairo Day 2:

Ahhhh….I spent most of the night waking up and looking at the clock…..UGH!!! My sagging hulk body is completely out of sync with the local time……”can’t teach an old sagging hulk new tricks” ……a sort of paraphrase?! Anyway…..looked out over western Cairo from our balcony this morning….and horribly smoggy, but no traffic out there…SURPRISE!!!! Suppose that the good people of Cairo are not early risers????

Getting ready to head down stairs for breakfast. Our pickup time is 8:45 for the day’s activities of touring and seeing and also some “shopping” at the oldest souk….open market….in the world. Anxious to walk through there and check it out….and perhaps get back into the mode of bargaining for EVERYTHING that is bought. Think that food and drink seem to be the only thing you don’t bargain for….hmmmm.

WOW…..WHAT a breakfast!!!!! Absolutely incredible……..a HUGE buffet with a section for Asians, a section for Middle Easterners, a section for northern Europe, and a section for Africans. WHAT a choice this was………but, my favorites were the wonderful pastries and the great, strong, BLACK coffee!!! YUM!!!

At 8:45.….we met our guide from yesterday who turned us over to the guide for the rest of the tour here in Egypt……Omar. We loaded up into the van, with the three other people from the states that were on our plane…..and this will be our entire tour group…..FIVE people!! SUPER!!!!

We immediately headed into the bumper to bumper traffice and went to the Cairo Museum……and OMG….what a place!!!! Most exhibits were not labeled in any language and so we were very glad to have our guide with us to describe and tell about what we were seeing with the thousands and thousands of artifacts there. As well…….thousands and thousands of people from all over the world. WOW…….we spent 3.5 hours in there, and the last area we went to were the King Tut exhibits. Cameras are not allowed at all in the Museum….which is a damned shame…..because the Tut artifacts were sooooooo colorful. Many the 1st Lady and I had seen in 1977 when the King Tut Exhibit was in Chicago.

I will close for now……I am in a café where they do have internet….from time to time….and I will post this now and finish it in Luxor when we fly down in the morning…..Saturday.

OH YEAH…….LIFE IS INCREDIBLY GREAT!!!!!!…And, I hope it is for all of you, also!!!