May 20
Well
again today we walked, walked and walked. We walked the streets of Cairo for
about 4hours today. We ended up
walking down some pretty obscure streets that I am pretty sure “white” folk
don’t walk down. We walked down a welding and metal fabricating side street, we
were in the midst of men carrying long metal poles, welding, and donkeys
pulling carts loaded down with metal pieces. We walked under and underpass that
was so busy. Traffic was crazy! Horns honking in every direction. We walked
down many streets lined with vendors.
Thankfully
we found our way to a place where we could find our way back to the area where
we are familiar with. We found the grocery store we went in the first day and
we bought some goods (nutella for Spencer, a traditional hot drink mix, milk
and cereal, yogurt and orange juice!). We also bought some more yummy peaches
from the fuirt market.
For
lunch we stopped at a pizza place and we shared a small pizza loaded with
cheese and some small veggies -15EP (less than $3). We had quite a few people
say “welcome”, “hello” and the like to us. Again not that much hassling!
We
stayed in the room from about 4-6pm. We skyped with mom and dad Gray! We love
Skype- especially when it works good. It is nice to hear about the news going
on back “home” in Canada.
I
was able to have a cup of nice tea with milk since our purchases at the grocery
store- so nice and relaxing!
For
dinner we went to the same place as last night, the chain restaurant called
GAD. It is cheap, clean, has a toilet, and has a huge menu. We had a small
dinner. I got 2 big falafels and a plate of raw veggies. Spencer got a not so
yummy baked pasta, but it wasn’t too too bad! We walked to get some dessert to
share in the room along with our drink mix we bought at the grocery store.
Tomorrow I think we are going to attempt to go to the Pyramids via local bus. I
hope we can make it there, hassle free, and “pain” free!
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