Well as most of you know, I did not do to well after Giza. I spent the next 5 days of our trip in bed and a nice visit to the local hospital (and that is all on that matter). Unfortunately I missed Kristina's graduation, but Kevin did not. They both said it was way too long and hot. So we will be heading home on Saturday, back to work on Monday. Until our next adventure, so long and happy sailing. May the wind Gods allways fill your sails.

After a few days rest, Kevin and I toured the Pyramids in Gisa. Our tour guide was Andrea (Kristina's roommate). She works on one of the local digs so we were able to see more then the pyramids. On our way to the Metro, Kevin fell and twisted his ankle, so when we got to Gisa, we did what any tourist would do. We road camels all around the site, which was a lot of fun. It was very hot and crowded, so we did not go in the big pyramid, but we did climb up a few blocks. There is also a solar boat museum which was very interesting. They found this one boat disasembled and had a local gentlemen assemble it. I think Kevin liked that the best. I liked the camels.

This is the last day of our tours, we have a very busy day; Valley of the Kings and Karnak. Each area is on different sides of the Nile in Luxor. We will first visit the Deir el-Bahri Mortuary. This temple was one of the first to be ruled by a female and she had to prove her importance, so on the walls of the temple, she shows the conception of he birth with the Gods. Next was the Valley of the Kings and we went to two different temples. Unfortunately we were not able to have the camera's inside the tombs. They were wonderful the way all the color of the paintings are still on the walls. Our last stop was Karnak in downtown Luxor. This is the home of the Obolisck, which was shown in the quarry at the beginning of our cruise. All I can say is everything here is big, very big. Kevin was in love with all the columns (again) and the god of fertility.

This is our last day on the cruise and we have had a wonderful time, except for all the cigarette smoke. The crew was great. Last night after dinner we went back to our room and the crew had made a mummy in my bed. This page will be photos of the cruise

Our next stop on day 3 was at Edfu. We arrive around 11:00am and went on the tour by horse and buggy. Let me clearify, a stinky horse and buggy ride. It was a beautiful temple and Nemo had a ball. For those who do not know Nemo, he is my work mascot. After the temple, we left and had lunch on board as we continued up the Nile and through the locks to Luxor. We arrived in Luxor around 9:00pm. At that time we meet the Chief of police Methat, he is a friend of one of Kevins co-worker. He brought us a few bags of gifts, from one of his shops. We did not go on any more tours. We will see Luxor in the morning. Oh yeah, our tour guide Mark got sick the first day so we then got a new guide name Peter who has been very nice. He is a little intimidated by Kristina.

At the end of day 2 we had dinner then set sail around midnight. We arrived at Komo Obu (means crocodile god) around 3:30am. Our first tour was at 7:00am; which lasted an hour then we were back on board for a lovely day cruise to Edfu. You really get to see a different life style traveling down the nile. There is a lot of farming from rice to corn. There are no big fancy machines, just donkey and hard work. The Nile reminded us of the ICW.

4 Day Nile Cruise

Our adventure started with a 3:00 am wake up call to take a 1 hr taxi ride to the airport. We flew into Aswan and had 2 private cars waiting for us. Our first tour guide "Mark" showed us the "High Dam"; which keeps the Nile from flooding upper Egypt, then "The unfinished Oblisque" where they finished the stone for building the oblisque which are in "The Karnak Temple". We finally arrive at the boat around 10:00 am and had lunch at 1:00. We did not have any other sites for the rest of the day, so we caught up on some sleep then went to dinner and watched a belly dancing show afterwards.

Day 2 was still in Aswan, with a trip to the Philie Temple and the Nubieum Musuem. When the dam was built it forced the Nubieum Tribe to be reloccated and moved into the mountains. Kind of reminded me of how we treated the Indians many years ago. The Philie Temple was on a lower Island which also had to be moved when the Dam was built.