1. Valley of the Kings = pure awesomeness. hands down amazing. we weren't allowed to take pictures but i was not going to leave my camera on a bus. unsafe! so i pushed it to the bottom of my bag and totally got through security! haha and the boy behind me got asked if his headset for listening to the professor was a camera. muhahaha. but i did follow the rules and didn't take any pictures. Highlights: we saw King Tut's tomb and he was actually inside! the mummy! aaaahhhhhh! then a small group of us paid extra to go to Rameses the 6th right above. It has the best preserved paint color on it. So 6 of us and Dr. Muhlestein (one of three LDS Egyptologists in THE WORLD) took us around. he even paid a man extra to let us go behind the gate and get right next to his sacrophagus. that is something that i will never get to do again!
2.Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut! Woman power! gotta love a female pharaoh. ps the heat was not even bad. i discovered i have a high tolerance for heat. some other students were dropping like flies.
3. Colossus of Memnon was a stop we took while going back for lunch. It was 2 large sculptures of the Amenhotep that the Greeks thought the spirit of Agamenon has gone into. there was some pest of a merchant there that followed me around and kept pointing to his eyes saying "magic eyes!" in a mocking, whining voice.
4. Falukah (river boat) ride to the other side of the Nile where CAMELS were waiting for us!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was uber nervous- i am not the best with animals. even horses make me nervous. and camels are taller and grosser. but they do not full on sprint. so i bucked up and got on that groaning animal and rode it along the Nile! we rode past little villages and huts with little kids passing out flowers. i really enjoyed it except when the camel knelt down i felt like i was going to fall off. but i didn't. and i was happy.
5. After dinner at the glorious Sheradon Hotel (side note: my roomie and i got an entire bungalo to ourselves. aka flat screen tv, 3 head shower, dome over our personal queen size bed= deluxe!) best food in here hands down. you tell them what you want and they grill/make it right in front of you exactly how you want it! anyways- that night i headed out to the Suuq (market) with the Muhlestein family. we took a carriage into town and did some shopping. so much fun- i loved being apart of their family!
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