Sorry to be late getting started - free Internet access turned out to be $8 USD per hour and I didn’t get a card yesterday - so I’ll try to catch you up:
Long flights, we were beat, but determined to make the Light and Sound show at the Pyramids; remarkanble - a full moon in the sky, a warm breeze off the Giza Plains and the call to prayer was sounding all over the city. In addition, meals and celebrations were starting after a day of fasting for Ramadan ( no food, alcohol, smoking or sex from sunup to sundown, then, as our guide, Yassir says "we go crazy".
Today we rode camels to the Sphinx and the Pyramids on the plain. Then to the museum ( too much to tell, but there was ALL of Tutankhamans treasures in one place). We then went to a Synagogoue marked as the site of the beginning of the exodus and a church noted as the hiding place of the holy family whe they fled Herrod.
This evening we cruised the Nile and had dinner. We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore as Dorothy might say.
Lots to tell about all this. Suffice to say - it’s been a full and amazing few days and we’re just starting. Everyone is healthy , happy, safe and thankful we have you all at home to watch after tings after the storms - we owe you!
Tomorrow we leave Cairo for St. Catherine following the Exodus route through the Sinai to Mt. Horeb where Moses received the 10 comandments.
Don’t know about internet access in the desert, so I’ll post as soon as I can.
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