Cairo at evening

We arrived in Cairo late this afternoon after a long trip starting at Washington, DC to Frankfurt, Germany. According to our Egyptologist, this is the first beautiful weather they've had in five weeks. It was about 70 degrees (F) and sunny. Yeah!

We are all SO tired and I keep falling asleep as I write this but wanted to let you know that we've arrived safely. Here's a few photos from our 8th story balcony overlooking the Nile River. 

The ride from the airport was an....experience. Although I thought that I knew what to expect - seeing it is different. Two incredible bits of info (and then I'm going to join Bill who is already snoring loudly):

1) Everyone ignores the stopsigns and stop lights in Cairo so they've just removed most of them or they've been destroyed. They've warned us NOT to try and cross the streets here. There are no pedestrian walkways and you literally take your life in our handl  

2) We passed miles and miles and miles of what I thought looked like bombed out buildings...and as it turns out, people LIVE there. (and they all have satellite dishes) OK -having trouble loading photos on this network......more tomorrow. 

that's it - more tomorrow when I'm lucid

Shalom  (Peace)