I bet you know what we are pretending to be here.
I was making fun of mom. We were taking pictures and I told her to do peace and she did it this way. I told her only chinese people did it this way. We taught here that your hand needs to be turned around.
This is me standing on Egypt! Notice my necklace? I love it.
This is the loft in Aunt Phyllis' classroom. I would love to be a kid in her class!
Don't I look good with lots of pounds?? Their money is done in pounds rather than dollars. $1 is 5 pounds.
This was dad our first night there. He fell asleep at dinner!! haha. It was a long trip! 2 hour wait in Phoenix. 5 hour flight to New York. 8 hr layover in New York. 11 hour flight to Cairo. 30 minute drive to maadi. Then dinner. sigh. That falafel burger never tasted so good. :)
These are the colors of ramadan. They have test set up all over where people can go eat. I guess ramadan is the a festival of tents and the tents are made out of this material so they decorate with it during the holiday.
Look at all the stacked styrafoam!!How do they get up there to stack and tie it?
This is us our first day!! Yahoo! Isn't lindsey's hat cute? We had to buy it in the airport because her hair was getting just a little out of control.WOW! What to say first! The trip over here was quite different. I have flown once and that was an hour flight. Our 5 our flight to New York was intense and the 11 hour flight to Cairo was Cruel and unusual punishment!!
I tried to sleep but that didn't work very well. At the Kennedy airport Lindsey and I both bought neck pillows that have a vibrating thing inside. Those were nice to have when you wake up from your nap in some crazy position and your neck feels like its going to disconnect from your melon. As I was flying into Cairo I looked out the window and it was magnificent.
Here is a picture of the coastline. For about a mile on both sides of the nile its green, green, green. Lots of farming.Then just a bit away from there were the PYRAMIDS! Very cool to see from the air.
I tried to sleep but that didn't work very well. At the Kennedy airport Lindsey and I both bought neck pillows that have a vibrating thing inside. Those were nice to have when you wake up from your nap in some crazy position and your neck feels like its going to disconnect from your melon. As I was flying into Cairo I looked out the window and it was magnificent. Here is a picture of the coastline. For about a mile on both sides of the nile its green, green, green. Lots of farming.Then just a bit away from there were the PYRAMIDS! Very cool to see from the air.The driving here is INSANE. They turn 3 lanes into 7. The lines on the road are only for decoration. IF you want to go somewhere you just go! There doesn't appear to be any ryme or reason! We met this cute little boy in the airport. He is about 9. He has lived in Egypt for a few years and he said that one year santa clause brought him a gift a few weeks late and left a note that says "Sorry I am late, But you know how driving is in Egypt." haha. That about sums it up.
Today is Friday and its about 5:20 pm. Where all you are in America it would be 8:20 am. We spoke in church at the Cairo branch this morning. The muslim sabbath is on Friday so thats when the worship. Everyone has work and school on Sunday. It's been kind of weird.There were about 100 people there! I thought it would be smaller. I imagined it was a lot like it was in the early days of the church! Everyone in the branch plays such an important part in the branch. If someone is missing it kind of throws everything off.
After church we went shopping at Road 9. There were tons of shops. A particular shop was my dream come true!! A JEWELRY SHOP. As we were flying over here I told my mom that the 1 thing I wanted was a necklace with a HUGE all-seeing eye. At the time it was a pipe dream because I didn't think they would have anything like it. I WAS WRONG. I found it and its even all rinestoned out, just how I like em. :) I will post pictures sometime soon. Well wait a second... Why not right now? I will see if I can figure it out on this computer.
As I was trying to log onto this website everything was in Arabic! haha I had to click around for a bit before I found the one that allowed me to log in.
So far everything has been a lot like Mexico. The big difference is all the houses are apartments. There are so many people that the build UP. I haven't seen the poor parts of town, only from the street. All the buildings look very dirty and ugly on the outside but on the inside they are lovely! They are very detailed and interesting. They love detail and design. When you buy an apartment it is just cement floors and walls. You have to put everything in yourself so they are all very different.
I love the pattern of this quilt. My grandma Jensen made this blanket for me. I love it.
Lindsey, Tori, and the sisters. 
That is the wonderful chocolate creme.
Lets just say that Jensen is just like his daddy and gets GLUED into the TV.
This is how 6 little kids look when the fall asleep
Max and Chloe weren't quite done moving. 5 minutes later they were like this.
Jensen sleeps like his dad too! haha
Such a cute picture!!
