Trapped in a pitch black pyramid...

We survived our first full day in Egypt, barely! You take you life in your hands here crossing the road, or driving on it for that matter!!! The traffic here is indescribable! 5 cars are jammed in a road designed for 3, no one stops or even slows for pedestrians. We had to cross 2 lanes of traffic to buy some water and find a money exchange place(the Hilton was charging 15 LE for a bottle of water we paid 2LE for across the street) It was literally like playing a game of frogger for your life..you had to run through one lane at a time stopping in the middle of each lane while cars whizzed past with no regard for your welfare! I felt a kind of exhilaration when I finished crossing the road which I usually reserve for extreme sports, like bungee jumping. Our current strategy for survival is to cross with other Egyptians and use them as human shields.

We also took our first real cab ride to the pyramids...SCARY....very scary. I swear we almost got into 10 accidents...it was hard to look forward, you had to look away or freak out. Sue pretended she was watching a video game.The cars weave in and out just about grazing each other(and pedestrians in the process)...I would have felt better if there were seatbelts....

The pyramids were amazing...hard to capture the scale in a picture. We were hardly harassed at all...which we were worried about due to warnings in books...the worst of it was by a mob of ill-mannered 12 year old girls believe it or not! We went inside the large pyramid...the steps in were very steep, narrow and short(you had to bend over the whole way up...and they weren't steps so much as wooden planks with foot holds along them, like a ladder...when we were half way up, maybe 50 meters, the lights went out with a power outage and it was pitch black for about 10 minutes...kinda cool...you couldn't move because it was too steep and dangerous to climb down and you couldn't see where you were going to climb up, but a once in a lifetime experience!

Tonight Sue's friend Hanan's Aunt Afaf and Uncle Hassan met us and took us out for fresh mango juice and dessert..they were sooo nice!! He is a supreme court judge and she is a university professor...they grew up in Cairo and had lots to tell us about life here. They are picking us up tomorrow at 2pm and taking us for falafel, sightseeing and for dinner at a "judges only" club...so that should be cool. They also offered for us to stay with them on our last day in Cario and take us shopping and to the airport. Very nice people so we are excited!

Tomorrow we will go to the Egyptian museum in the morning and Aunt Afaf will pick us up at 2pm. Will write more afterwards! Enjoy the snow:)