Ain Sukhna

We had five days off for Eid El-Fitr, the big feast celebration after Ramadan. We found a beach house for rent on Cairo’s Craigslist. It was in Ain Sukhna, which is about an hour east of Cairo on the Red Sea. The villa was in a private resident’s beach resort. It was three levels with five bed rooms, two kitchenettes and two sitting areas with balconies. We went with four other couples from school so there was a total of eleven of us with baby Malcolm. The resort had two nice pools, a clubhouse with a restaurant and a small pizza place on the beach. Besides that there was nothing else to do and the resort it’s self was far away from anything so we never left.

The trip was very relaxing, which we needed because teaching without students for the past two weeks has been soooo hard! The hardest thing to do every day was decide if we wanted to read by the pool or read by the beach.




Lianne and I did go running on the beach in the morning. They were great relaxing runs with beautiful scenery to admire. We were on some stretches of beach that was completely uninhabited and barely ever touched by humans. On morning I found this HUGE clam shell!

We found pool rule number 6  interesting.

On the way home, we passed these boys in the back of their truck with their sheep. We drove next to them for a long time because we were having fun playing with them. They got a kick of us waving to them and taking their pictures, and we got a kick of them playing with their toy guns.