Day 2

6/13/10

Six o'clock in the afternoon is soooo not one in the morning!!!!!

The day is half over and nothing has happened but air sickness on the landing, Mark already getting frustrated with Grandma and Karin for facilitating it. I still need to find a place to exchange my money. Everyone is getting testier and testier as the day goes on.

We find out we are in the yellow group. Our group leader is Ebtisam. She is a girl. But she is not here because she is part of the Alexandria pre trip. So Basem, the green group leader is telling us all of the pertinent information for the first day.

Yadda Yadda Yadda about water and room assignments. We make it to the hotel where we have to go through metal detectors and scan our belongings. And this is a five star Mariott hotel.

We find the Bank of Alexandria where we exchange my 300 dollars for 1700 egyptian pounds.

We finally find our rooms in the garden and are settling in when Mark and Karin find out the desist mandate on Calling Cards. They have no communication home. EXCEPT ME!!!

Dinner is at 7 outside my balconyand the food is traditional egyptian cuisine to convince us all we are really in Egypt. Dessert was very cocounty and pretty good. I did not particularly partake in the rest of the meal.

Discovery!! Our hotel is five minutes from the EGYPTIAN MUSEUM!!!!!!!!! You can see it from our hotel!

We meet Sam for the first time. She is very nice and very interested in meeting me. She promises to point out the American University in Cairo tomorrow because it too is near the museum.

We are gross and need a rest. We leave for our rooms early. I take a nice bath and fall asleep to the nice hum of air conditioning. I Love Air Conditioning.

Tune in tomorrow for the next chapter in Sarah's Egypt Adventure and the Egyptian Museum