That's what Cairo is like...a pressure cooker. The minivan drove us past skyscrapers and aggressive drivers into the crazy city of Cairo. I still remember seeing a woman driving with her complete face veiled! I threw up a prayer for all our sakes, safety, not women's emancipation being on my mind :)
True to style, we were rushed into the Cairo Museum, that houses the treasures from ancient times--New, Middle and Old Egypt. The New does not really mean modern day, it's new in terms of the ancient :) We thronged with the rest of the tourists to catch a glimpse of the famed Tutankhamen's finery and belonging that lie here. It was unbelievable, to actually be somewhere that I had always thought existed only on TV, books or at the most, my history teacher's Egypt video. Of course after all this competing with masses of eager tourists, our stomachs were growling. And what do you do if you are a bunch of non beef eaters in mega beef eating land? You hunt for KFCs like crazy (God bless the Colonel) and then if you are as smart as I am, you tell the counter guys to only give us chicken--NO BEEF or PORK. No point telling me that Arab land kind of frowns upon pork ;) Doesn't register :)
Day 1 in Egypt and panic strikes us--what do we do if we can't buy papyrus. I mean, c'mon all four of us love books and well there's a connection...So next stop, papyrus store. That's tomorrow! (Hunger beckons too hard right now, so gotta go :)
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