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| Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 7:10 PM | |||||||||||
| Subject: Finally...the pyramids | |||||||||||
| 6:51pm Thursday (1:51 PM Toronto) | |||||||||||
| I just returned from a day of being a tourist. Went to the Citadel this morning, and went to the pyramids this afternoon. The Citadel is where there's a whole bunch of mosques, and I checked out Mohamed Ali's mosque. (I guess this is where he did his training? JOKE!) | |||||||||||
| The pyramids were awesome (can't really describe), and for the most part that ended my siteseeing stuff (as I had planned), so from now on, it's life as a Cairene native. | |||||||||||
| Last night, went out to dinner at a really cool restaurant called L'Aubergene. It's basically an ex-pat hangout on an island in the middle of the Nile. Not a desolated island, but a part of the city...I think you know what I mean. Then we went to some bar that only locals go to. Pretty trendy, and we needed someone to get us in, I think. It was aw-ite! | |||||||||||
| This morning, I finally found some pork sausage. Ummm-mmmm. It was good. I've been searching for the last couple of days and it seems that every place always runs out. I guess it's in short supply and high demand here. | |||||||||||
| Okay, the pyramids. Very cool, very big. Trotted around on a camel, and got some cool shots. Ran out of film though. I've already went through 13 rolls of film, plus a couple of disposables. Some of those 13 are 36 exp. rolls also. Lots of developing when I get back. I got kicked out because I stayed on the grounds past closing time, and I told the guard that I wasn't leaving because I just bought my ticket (I was lying). He let me shoot a few more, but then he pulled out his AK-47 and said I had to leave. I left. | |||||||||||
| Tonight, going to a house party. One of Lorra's friends birthday, and I think I'm running late as I type this, so I gotta run upstairs and get ready. (Pretty cool, the internet place is right beside Lorra's building.) Tomorrow is falucca on the Nile, where we basically bring some booze and food on one of those big sailboats, and party and eat. | |||||||||||
| Well, until we chat again... | |||||||||||
| Maas salama, | |||||||||||
| Shadi el G Mohammed | |||||||||||
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