August 2, 2005
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First of all, if you enjoy a good puzzle, play this game real quick, there's really nothing like it.
Might go back to Alexandria this weekend. That'd be cool. I'm getting a wicked tan already.. RAWR!! I'll be so hott in Europe.
I'm too lazy to update. Here's an abridged email to my mom. Haha.
I went to the pyramids a couple days ago... man it was cool! I got to climb up on one of them (and find a piece for Nathan) and we got to go down into an underground tomb through this little 4ft high tunnel down into the earth. Once we got down there it opened up into the chamber, and it smelled a little dank just like you always hear the tombs smell. The giant sarcophagus was there sitting open. We also saw a camel chase. Cops chasing criminals... on camels. In the desert. It was amazing. There are all these people with camels that come up to the pyramids and try to get white people on them. They aren't allowed to do this so the cops chase them out... it doesn't work. They tried to get me up on one of them but I pretended to be afraid and cry. Hahaha. He was all grabbing my arm and trying to pull me over to the camel for a picture. Camels are kind of scary... they're REALLY big and one of the police camels growled at me and I was sure I was going to get spit on. Ha. Afterwards we went to this really nice restaurant with Mike's boss and work people who I have gotten to know kinda well... this restaurant was pretty cool, and Mike and I got lost in it looking for a bathroom and we wound up finding a room that said "Churchhill Suite" and the people that were cleaning it saw us and invited us in for a showing. It was SO nice. Turns out that the Big Three conference of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Chang Kai-Chek was held in the hotel there. Kinda neat... It's pretty cool how hospitable the Egyptians are to tourists, too. Like that, just inviting us in to the suite the moment they saw us peeking inside. Pretty much EVERYONE you encounter here is like that, probably because they realize how very important the tourism industry is here, and tourists are PRETTY easy to identify. We're the white ones. Haha. There are also a lot of Pakistanis that vacation here I guess, but you see tons of Europeans. And all the Egyptians assume you're very rich and you get the star treatment wherever you go, maybe because you ARE very rich by their standards... it is VERY inexpensive to live over here.
That's all for now... I guess I might go to the Giza Zoo today! It's supposed to be pretty disgusting!
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Mommy and I went to see the IMAX movie about the Nile. When it showed the pyramids she was like "Look Look! See the City in the background. See it! That's where Parker is!" And I had to keep shushing her cause whenever she saw something that reminded her of you she launched into a story from your e-mail.
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hahaha I had this entire visual image in my head of you when I read you pretended to be affraid and cry when the guy tried to get you near the camel, I think my kidney sibling senses kicked in cuz I felt like I was there watching you, it made me laugh a lot. haha.
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