May 12 (Leah's)

We were suppose to go to Asswan today, but since we are on our own time frame (and I was feeling too lazy) we decided to spend another day in Luxor and go tomorrow. This way we could check out bus and train times.            

            We had our breakfast and then Spencer went with Andrew to collect our Landry. I asked the hotel desk to call the bus station; there was no answer (this is when we decided to stay another day). We tried to do a little work out in our room. Spencer used our nifty home made TRX that we got in Aqaba from a friend. My shoulder is still not up to working out. We then decided to brave the streets and we walked to the train station to try and get more accurate information, and along the way we found out there was no bus to Asswan, so we decided we were definitely taking the train then! On the way back to the hotel we bought a roasted chicken, tomatoes and a loaf of bread to have for dinner that night. We still had some fruit remaining for our lunch.

            The rest of the afternoon we hung by the pool, reading, relaxing, swimming and baking in the sun! It was probably 40 degrees today (Celsius!!). It is hot, but thankfully it’s a dry heat so you don’t sweat as much like in the humidity.

            We were able to skype with both our families today. It is so nice to have this “free” source to call home! It is nice to be able to stay in touch and every once and a while when we skype feel like we are with them! It is hard traveling sometimes, but now that we are married, we are a family, which makes it a bit easier. We don’t get as homesick as some “single” travelers do, so I am very thankful to have such a loving man as my husband that I can travel and see the world with! (and he gets reminded all the time from local men how lucky he is….I think 3 guys today called out as we were walking down the street- “you are a lucky guy!” … I keep waiting to hear “you are a lucky girl”…but Spencer reminded me there probably aren’t that many gay men here and most of the women don’t talk to men they don’t know…but I can let you know.. I am one lucky girl!