Quick y'all

Na'ama Bay, Egypt

I wrote a really long blog entry the other day, but it didn't load. As I told Sarah, the short of it was:

Stayed in an old church B&B where the hostess was a grumpy South African that gave us attitude.

Visited Old Islamic Cairo, including oldest Muslim university and the bazaar. Bizarre.

Kevin Brady (LBJ friend) showed us around the US Embassy, where I got a spiffy American Embassy golf shirt.

Memorable moment: a boy came up to me at a cafe and tried to sell me a cheaply made Arabic phrasebook (really a xerox handout)...starting the bidding at $7. Yikes. He kept going lower and lower and I didn't bite. Finally he threw it in my lap and said to take it for free. It looked like he was going to cry. In the end, I gave him some money, but it was sad to see this little kid depend on some Western kid on a few cents for his next meal of rice and beans. Reminded me of my time in Ethiopia. Depressing, but more so inspiring.

Visited the Pyramids yesterday and today in the swank resort town along the Red Sea. More later.