Egypt: Salaam Alaikum!

Hello everyone! Egypt is awesome! As we speak I am sitting in a smoke-filled dial up internet cafe with men chanting their prayers on the ground right next to me. Surreal. Our entire trip has been perfect so far. The pyramids were beyond my wildest expectations...three times larger than I'd ever imagined. We even got to crawl (and I do mean crawl) down into one in stifling hot heat. Unfortunately we were about 3,234 years too late to raid it. The sarcophagus was empty, picked clean by grave robbers.

Ranking right on up there with the pyramids was a special site in Amsterdam. And I'm not talking about Anne Frank's secret annex (which we also got to see, and was the highlight of my life). I'm talking about the legal prostitutes standing behind glass windows tapping on the glass to get our attention and beckon us into their bedrooms for a little romp in the sack! I'm also talking about the three feet tall weed plants under hot lamps growing all over the place. Both tempting...but since I love my life prison and STD-free, we grudgingly abstained from both.

Tomorrow we head south with police convoy (wish I were kidding) to about 20 miles north of the Sudanese border to Abu Simbel (a temple). We need to rise and shine at 3:30am to rendevous with the convoy.

We got up early this morning too. We were on an overnight train, and I was excited to be served our breakfast in bed. I nearly laughed out loud when I saw our food tray and it's exotic fare- which was FOUR pieces of bread. Yum!

More another day, it takes twenty minutes to post anything with this crappy dial up!