I thought I would get started catching up on posting some photos from Robin and Betty’s visit in Egypt.  While they were here, we saw the pyramids in Giza, five temples, four tombs, a whole lot of Nile, one giant museum, did some serious haggling at the Khan Al Kalili, had a few extraordinarily eventful taxi rides, and even made two apple pies.  Delightful, yes!  Busy, indeed!  So I will do my best to get caught up soon…  Here we go…

Ah, the pyramids.  Has man made anything in recent history that will be visited by millions of tourists in 4,000 years?  Anything anyone is going to marvel at? The pyramids are incredible.  If you can look past the hecklers and discarded chipsy bags and imagine what it would have been like to stumble across this place after nothing but a flat sea of desert, it is truly awe-inspiring.  Truly amazing.

Here are a few photos from our excursion…

After seeing dozens of camels, we decided it was about time to find one for the photo-op everyone needs to take advantage of when they visit Giza.

This guy looked pretty friendly…

He’d been snacking for a while, looked pretty pleasant. But then…

Then he bared his nasty, nasty camel teeth.  In case you wondered what the inside of a camel’s mouth looks like, now you know.  They also sound like Chewbaca doing his little sad yell thing.  For the record.

Nonetheless, Betty braved ahead and took the reins.

And Robin climbed aboard…

And I told the assistant camel guy not to make the camel kiss Betty.  I may have yelled, something like, “You don’t have to kiss it!!!!” as the camel reached in for a smooch.  Hey, we saw it’s mouth.  And I look out for my peeps. Haha.

Then we headed to the Sphinx.

Pretty cool.  Hard to describe the Sphinx with his big paws and beardless, noseless face gazing into eternity.

Yep, that would be my husband.  What a ham!

I think we all had a great time.  For me at least, it is hard to immediately realize the full awesomeness of the experience with all the comedic antics of the camels and the hecklers and people climbing next to “no climbing” signs and whatnot.  But when you sit back and think about it, it makes you even more aware of how ancient, monumental, and permanent the pyramids really are.