More of Egypt!

Read the first Cairo post first.

Friday morning, we woke up, ate breakfast, and caught a taxi to Giza, to see the pyramids! Hilary's dad is friends with the taxi driver. Once in the cab, he offered us apples (which we declined) and started to tell us riddles. Hilary got one of them, but after that, we were stumped. We drove across the Nile and saw...lots of dirty things. Cairo isn't a very clean city. Not only is there sand and dust, but the garbage clean-up is not like NYC. Again, Cairo is a sprawling city, it's just hard.

Anyways, we got to the pyramids and the Sphinx! We walked around, went into a mini temple. I took some pictures, made some faces. We also traced G(tb)^2 into the sand and took a picture, but I don't think it showed.

The pyramids were incredible, but...I don't know, I don't think there is much to say about them.

Afterwards, we went to the Turgomen bus station (there are 4 bus stations in Cairo) to get my ticket back to Taba. We then caught the subway and then the bus back to Hilary's apartment. We rode in one of the women only cars, which was actually a huge relief. The women generally ignored us.

We got home and read, chilled, cooled off. Hilary's dad made maccaroni and cheese for dinner! It was delicious.

There was more hanging out, more reading, and then we went to bed. Don't get me wrong, it was a full day, but I'm not one for raving and raving over natural wonders.

More later!