Borin' ol' Egypt

Marhaba. This will all sound very sarcastic, but Adam asked me to tell him about all the boring things I'm doing and seeing in Egypt, so you're getting my response...because I'm really short of time online, so .......

Well, hello. Today I rode a camel named William Shakespeare. It was really boring. We climbed in a bunch of really boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings, which I think they should rename the Valley of the Snores, because I was so bored by the well-preserved boring colors that were painted on the boringly carved walls thousands of years ago. We also saw the boring, shrivelled, mummy body of King Tut Ankh Ahmen. The only interesting thing about all those Rameses' tombs (why did they all have the same name anyway?), is that one of them almost collided with the shaft of the tomb of Amen Messe - glance at that name really quick and then look away reall fast....do it......humor me......okay, please!!!........is that vaguely familiar to you? I saw the boring cave where the scrolls and mummies that Joseph Smith purchased and from which he translated the Book of Abraham - I actually took a little nap there.....I'm not kidding - I did. We also took boring pictures at the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, who locked her step-son, the rightful king Tut Moses III, in the palace while she assumed the throne herself in the guise of a man. There was also something about the Nile and a sailboat, but the details escaped me...clearly not memorable enough......

THIS STINKS!!! No more lies. I'm amazed at what we're seeing and experiencing. I think the only thing I'm struggling with is how much they're trying to jampack into our schedule and how many times we get on and off the tour bus every hour. We drove to Eilat (still in Israel) and spent the first night in a kibbutz, after having seen tons of historical sites I didn't even know existed. The next day we crossed the border into Egypt and drove across the Sinai Wilderness. Actually that was kinda boring. We ended up in Cairo and saw the pyramids in the skyline of the city as the sun was setting. That night we went to the Sound and Light show, which I admit was kinda boring - just think Disneyland in the early early days. These are The Great Pyramids at Giza, where the Sphinx hangs out. THe next morning we went deep inside one of them and all 80+ of us sang in the tomb. So cool. I learned how papyrus is made. I think I'll pick that up too - doesn't look too hard. We jump on a plane and flew to Luxor, where we're staying in the nicest hotel I've ever been in, eating spectacular food and generally living it up on the bank of the Nile.

Sidenote: Some Egyptians look like Samoans very vaguely........don't know how that happens....