EgYpT day#7

this was our last day in Cairo but boy was it fun! We ended our adventures in Cairo by going to the Muhammad Ali Mosque and al-Nasir Muhammed Mosque. The Muhammad Ali Mosque is done in the Ottoman style and largest one built in the 19th century. I actually saved an Egyptian pound that has this mosque printed on it. totally saving that one. it is a large landmark no matter where you are in Cairo. inside was beautiful, it was lit with old fashioned light bulbs in glass jars.

and when we got onto the bus for lunch we had boxes of KFC waiting for us. haha that still cracks me up- it seems so random and appeared from no where. when i first saw it i shouted "MANNA!" haha my humor has regressed into nerdy Old Testament puns. don't judge haha.

on the way out of Cairo we drove through the City of the Dead. aka the cemetary of Cairo that the poor people took over and live in. that was quite memorable... and made me sad. but this picture of a restroom in egypt makes me super happy. WC mean water closet. but the woman's face is just too dang funny!

our route out of Egypt was the same one the Israelites took on their Exodus. We even made the same stops they did- at Elim and Rephidim.

Elim is an Oasis and there we met some Bedouin children. (nomads who live in the dessert) there was a little girl who i sat next to and talked some Arabic with. her two little brothers were climbing the palm trees like monkeys. a group of us girls asked to take some pictures with them and they said ok. but as we kept taking pictures with them the two little boys kept acting funny. they would get close to some girls but whenever i got close they scatterd. i was totally confused until my friend pointed out that i was the only one with long blonde hair and all the other girls had super dark curly hair. so i scared them with my light hair haha i felt so bad.

at the end of the long drive to the middle of the Sinai penisula we made it to the Morganland Hotel and set our alarms for 2 am to climb Mount Sinai the next day!