7-31-09 I AM SO LUCKY

Ok so just to fill in from yesterday, yesterday we went and visited the pyramids and some other stuff in Cario which is actually one of the most polluted cities in the world. But so anyway the pyramids were cool but everything around the pryamids is such a joke including the guards, you can bribe them to let you climb onto the pryamid. But so anyway as soon as I got out of the motorcoach, I was bombarded with these Illegal camel guys that try and get you on their camels, well I somehow got on one and the kid is taking my picture with my camera. So then I am telling them to let me down let me down get me to the group, because that is how they also get money out of you; they seclude you from the group and then steal your money and so I get off I snatch my camera and I start walking away from the guys, well 2 are following and telling me to pay them money. I tell them no they said it was free and that is the only reason I agreed in the first place. But so I keep walking and they call over the Boss guy and he grabs my arm and I immediately tell him let go I am not paying and I keep walking and so ultimately I get out of paying and so yeah dont ever fall for this trick. Also do not even approach any of the locals about anything they want money for anything they do for you. After the pryamids we go to the hotel which is super nice and we get a chance to relax for a bit and eat some dinner, and after dinner we go to a light show at the Pryamids and the Sphinx which is equally as awesome, but everything around that area is so commercialized it is like EGYPTs version of disneyland. After the light show at the pyramids which was super cheesy and I am pretty sure the guys voice over was the same guy who did the ride for Indiana Jones at disneylands ride. But after we go to the hotel and a wedding is going on and it was so awesome and so then I go and I skype with Candice for a little bit with Christian too and yeah it was great talking to them. But then we had a like 3 30 wake up call and had to be at the airport at 5 for our 7 o clock flight which was crazy trying to wake up for. But do we flew from Cario to Luxor which I slept most of the way, and our first stop was Valley of the Kings where I almost lost my camera from the security in one of the tombs. It says that you are not suspose to take pictures and I was risking it, it was the last tomb we were going into and I snapped one photo and my camera makes a noise everytime and one girl from S@S looks at me and I go SHH and right then this guard turns the corner and like sees that I just took a picture and so he tells me to turn on my camera, and I do he hits play and sees the photo I just took, he thens starts to remove my camera from me and I am freaking out cause my camera is super ultra expensive. Right at that moment I see my friend Michelle who is from Saudia Arabia and he speaks Arabic and I get him to talk to the guard, the guard tells me to finish looking through the place. I finish in like 2 minutes, and then the guard starts walking up with me and he keeps reaching his hand back like he wants money and I pull out like the first 3 bills I could find. Well he takes them and looks at them and then gives them back to me and says no no no, and I am freaking out he says I am the security and he just gives me my camera, and like deletes all the picture I take from the tombs and tells me to have a good rest of the time in EGYPT. All this is due to my buddy from Saudi Arabia being able to talk to the guard in Arabic ohh my gosh I thought for sure that this guard was going to take my camera for good. But yeah so I was soo overjoyed that I got it back and then we went to Queen Hatshepsut which was awesome, it is even better than I remember it from Art History, but maybe cause I was there and not trying for a grade. Then we went to the hotel for some lunch and some rest time. Ohh yeah and Egypt is super hot and people are seriously trying to sell you stuff everywhere that you go. After lunch and rest we travel to the Temple of the Karnak which is so colosal in its statue it blows the mind away at how they put together such amazing works. The ancient Egyptians would fill the square fortress with sand and then construct these pillars like one meter at a time and then continue filling with sand and constructing the pillars in layers, and then to decorate they would let a little sand out little by little and basically doing the opposite and painting it from top to bottom, but they are so beautiful to look at. After that temple we traveled to the Temple of Luxor which was actually the combination of 2 temples from King Ramsey the 2nd and King Am-something but yeah so those were super cool, and yeah now I am just waiting on dinner miss you all and cannot wait to be home and eatting some good Mezican food hahaha the simple things in life that make you happy.