Cairo Weekend Getaway

At the beginning of this year, Seth and I said we would make it down to Cairo a log more for weekend getaways. Well, as you know, things are easier said than done and the only time we spend in Cairo this year (other than work related trips) was during spring break when Seth’s family was here. Well, we are quickly running out of time so we finally just picked a weekend and stuck to it.

We took the train down right after school on Thursday. We stayed at the President Hotel in Zamelek, an area of Cairo that we really like. We just couldn’t wait another three weeks until we get home and indulged ourselves in ordering Papa John’s! It was quite a treat for us! The next day we spoiled ourselves to Subway. Are you seeing a trend yet? Yep! That’s right! This trip was mostly about treating ourselves to good food we can’t get in Alexandria. Besides eating, the only other thing we did was shop! We spent most of our time at the Khan El Khalili. We finished up all the Egyptian gift buying we needed to do for people back home, as well as, bought a few more things for ourselves that we hadn’t yet gotten. Two years in Egypt and we hadn’t bought a single piece of Alabaster!!!!!

It was a wonderful get away and very relaxing and fun of the two of us. We wish we had made more of an effort to do this more often during the year. The only snafu of the whole trip was that our return train was an hour and a half late! This is very unusual and since Ramses Station in Cairo doesn’t have any signs, message boards and all announcements are only made in Arabic…we had a little trouble figuring out what was going on. But as things usually work out here, we befriended a family that spoke English who were waiting for the same train and they helped make sure we knew what was going on and got us on the correct train home.

Pictures from the Khan el Kahlili

 

We came across a Harley-Davidson store in Zamelek!  Who knew!

(We also have pictures of us stuff our faces with Papa Johns and Subway, but who really want's to see that!)

Also.....

Today is Seth's Birthday!  

Happy Birthday Sweetie.  I love you!