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back in Cairoback in Cairo Everyone has been asking me if things feel or look any different here in Cairo after the revolution.  When I left, there were tanks in my neighborhood, a curfew, lots of gunfire, there was no internet, and Mubarak was still president.  Now, Mubarak is gone, the police are back on the streets, the tanks have rolled out,...

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from ancient to medieval in Cairofrom ancient to medieval in Cairo On Tuesday we started our day with a cab ride to Tahrir to see the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. We spent a few hours enjoying the Tutahnkamun exhibit, Akhenaten collection, and other ancient art and artifacts of Egypt. We then took a taxi to the Citadel. The views of the city were stunning. We...

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weddles in luxorweddles in luxor This past week has been a whirlwind!  After seeing some sights around Cairo with Ryan, my parents arrived and we left for Luxor.  We arrived in Luxor around midday and decided to check out Luxor Temple in the afternoon sunlight.  It was incredible.  The city of Luxor creeps right up to the edges of these ancient sites,...

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Mount SinaiMount Sinai Last weekend we went on a faculty trip to Mount Sinai.  After a 9 hour bus ride through barren, empty, desert, along the eastern coast of Egypt and across the Sinai Peninsula, we made it to Dahab where the best thing about our hotel was the coral reef meters from our room.  Another 2 hour bus ride through a forbidding...

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Unfinished ObeliskUnfinished Obelisk Once we got to Aswan and after a crazy taxi experience that entailed some serious driver rivalry, keys stolen from the ignition, a chase involving a tire iron, and a group of tourists, ahem, us, quietly unloading our luggage and finding another cab... (yeah, I know, OH EGYPT!) Anyhow once we got to Aswan, we decided...

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Pyramids to get us started

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Posted by emily | Posted on 19-04-2010

Category : Family, My Life in Cairo, Robin & Grandma's Visit, Sightseeing in Cairo, Travel & Sightseeing

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…

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Portland to Cairo and back to Portland

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Posted by emily | Posted on 19-04-2010

Category : Family, My Life in Cairo, Robin & Grandma's Visit

We had such a great time with Robin and Betty!  Here we are before the final wild taxi-ride to the airport.  Wild in that it required a total of four vehicles, one water bottle of gasoline, a good dose of confusion, and a lot of swerving and speeding.  In a way, a fitting departure that left us all thankful we’d left a little early for the airport.  Despite the misadventures, I think we all had a wonderful time!!

welcome in egypt

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Posted by emily | Posted on 31-03-2010

Category : Family, My Life in Cairo, Robin & Grandma's Visit, Sightseeing in Cairo

Robin and Grandma are visiting us in Cairo!  A trip to the pyramids is on the agenda for tomorrow, but here are a few photos from the past two days:

Here’s Robin, Betty, and Brandon at a fruit stand in Maadi.  We picked up some grapefruits, local bananas, and melons before heading out to dinner.

This afternoon we did a little shopping around the neighborhood and then went to Al-Azhar Park to see the Cairo skyline at sunset.  The sun almost beat us down.  Here is a cow on the freeway.  Just in case you needed to see that.

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no place like Amrika for the holidays

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Posted by emily | Posted on 06-01-2010

Category : Family, Food, in America and Elsewhere, Travel & Sightseeing

I went back to America in December.  It felt so good to be home!  But now it feels good to be home in Cairo.  Funny how that works.  I blame wanderlust.

I really enjoyed seeing family and friends and eating salads without a care in the world.  It was delightful!  I also got to spend ten days or so with my Mimi in Oklahoma.  We had lots of fun together.

What a beautiful country…

amrika

christmas donuts

We were lucky that the rest of my family arrived when they did, because a huge blizzard hit the midwest on Christmas Eve.

christmas ice

That’s the view on Christmas morning.  The snow was incredible.  Good thing we were all together!

thankful

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Posted by Emily | Posted on 28-11-2009

Category : Family, Food, My Life in Cairo

I know I am way overdue on posts. There is just so much I need to catch everyone up on… the step pyramid Saqqara, the Red Pyramid which we got to go inside, the Bent Pyramid, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, a long weekend in Alexandria complete with Greco-Roman amphitheaters with bizarre acoustic phenomena, catacombs, the sea, and all kinds of fun, lots of fun hanging out with Meredith, the choc-full Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, moomie, moomie, moomie, catacomb,… there is just so much. Soon, I will post pictures and catch you all up.

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E-I-E-I-O

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Posted by emily | Posted on 05-11-2009

Category : Family, Meredith's Visit, My Life in Cairo, Oh, Egypt

Where do I even begin?  We were in the mood for a good old-fashioned family game night and thought we would see what we could round up.  We found a “De Lux [sic]” version of Scrabble which I think we can all agree lived up to its name… DEEEEEEEE-lux.  Check it out…

delux scrabble

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Happy Halloween!

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Posted by Emily | Posted on 31-10-2009

Category : Family, Meredith's Visit, My Life in Cairo

I hope everyone has a great Halloween! We didn’t feel like dealing with the mess of pumpkin-like-squash carving, so we picked up an extra yellow bell pepper and a white miniature eggplant. Meredith’s lil’ eggplant (yes, I said “lil'”) wins the cuteness award!

jack-o-veggies

Stay tuned for pictures from the most beautiful day at Giza…

Meredith is here!

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Posted by Emily | Posted on 28-10-2009

Category : Family, Meredith's Visit, My Life in Cairo, School

Sorry I haven’t been posting lately. It has been a busy last few weeks. Meredith got here on Saturday, and while we have done NOTHING really Egypty, we have been having a grand old time, and frankly, the pyramids can wait. Haha. Actually, we are going on Friday, so get ready for some camel pictures! Oh get ready!

Anyhow, it is wonderful having her here. While Brandon and I have been at school, Mer’s been recovering from jetlag at home with Marti and Alie. But today, we all took the bus and came to campus. And now I am sitting with Meredith in the shade of the beautiful buildings, recovering from the whirlwind of confusion that surrounds just about everything that involves something out of the ordinary and a tremendously lacking Arabic vocabulary.

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Happy Birthday, Meredith!

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Posted by Emily | Posted on 26-09-2009

Category : Family

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happy birthday meredithMeredith, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

We are officially the big two five!  I feel older, don’t you?

Little known fact, September 26th is the unofficial TWIN APPRECIATION DAY!!  Being your twin is one of the greatest things in the world.  Thanks for being a beaming ray of sunshine in my life!  I hope it’s a beautiful day in Nantucket!  Please enjoy a delicious, well-made latte and some good quality chocolate for me.  And start looking for the best cake recipe you can find, because we are gonna bake ourselves a cake when you get here!

P.S. You may have to bring the cake pan .!.

the honeymoon

Posted by Emily | Posted on 21-08-2009

Category : Family, in America and Elsewhere, Travel & Sightseeing

sitting on a rock

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