6 Continents, 5 Months

Today we woke up to the blackness of night. We have to catch a flight to Cairo at 8:45 so we got up at five in oder to get to the airport, which was an hour away and then get through international customs, another two hours of waiting in lines. After the one hour bus ride from the station about ten minutes from our hotel, we checked our luggage through to the plane. We got through customs and everything was fine and dandy. After  we landed in Cairo and got all our luggage, we were picked up and delivered to our hotel in downtown Cairo. It was a nice hotel and we finally got a room that could support our entire family of six. Since we had an early flight, we had the entire day to explore Cairo. First we went to the Ancient Egyptian Museum. It is rated as one of the best museums in the world, and I'd agree with that. It was an amazing place! We saw all sorts of mummified people, to crocodiles and even mummified rams. I don't even know where the Ancient Egyptians found rams in the desert! There was over 85,000 ancient artifacts in the museum and the architects keep finding more. They have over 30,000 that aren't in the museum so they are building a new, better, bigger museum right beside the pyramids of Giza. The architects predict that they have only found about ten percent of all ancient Egyptian artifacts and people. After the adventure in the museum, it was only six in the afternoon, dinner time. We'd seen earlier that there was a dinner cruise on the NIle RIver that you could take with a party. So the six Anderson's and our tour guide went to the dock where that ship was and had dinner on the Nile. There was roughly one hundred and fifty other people on the boat, but it wasn't considerably crowded. It was a buffet, equipped with a live band and a belly dancing show after dinner. The meal was great and so was the music. When the belly dancer was finished her show, an Egyptian style of dance called Sovffy dancing was brought to the show.  It involves the dancer to spin around in circles waring a dress that flares out into an aurora of colours. It was incredible, they span around for at least ten minutes. It made me dizzy just watching it. After about eight nineties of spinning, the dancer was thrown a tray, a glass, and a full bottle of water. WIthout stopping he managed to open the bottle and pour the water into a glass, I was impressed. The belly dancer came back out after and got pictures with everyone. When we were on our way out, she was still dancing. She called on my little sister, Katie, to try dancing with her but she is shy so unfortunately I got the call because I was standing next to her. She dragged me onto the stage to attempt to do the tricks she was teaching me  but it was really  embarrassing. Everyone on the ship found it rather funny though so I had no choice but to go along with it. My brother got a video of me trying these tricks on stage and it was pretty funny afterwards. After the ship dinner, it was late and we have to be up early for a big day ahead of us tomorrow.