Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Egypt Day 13......All New, All Great


Ok an update as my great friend Arbed Srewop scolded me into..... We are now in Day 13. Things have changed. We now even more than ever sit back in wonder and amazement in admiration of the Egyptian people! Such wonderful, kind, friendly, helpful people could not possibly be found anywhere on the planet. Yesterday we bought groceries at the local supermarket. When we found out they delivered (Our housemate had a delivery to our villa the day before) we decided to follow that course. But when we checked out instead of taking the taxi like we thought we would be doing the store manager told us we could just ride along with the delivery truck to our villa. So basically they personally delivered the groceries along with us! Now if you remember the old VW buses from the 60's. Quarter the size of those with the same shape and that was our delivery vehicle. At least it was bigger than a TukTuk. (three wheeled vehicles from India that have a driver and then one bench seat for two which they seem to be able to get about 5 into!) So another act of kindness and another great experience. Here are a few photos/video? They had Donna and myself, our two lawn chairs and table and groceries plus the driver and his helper in the tiny little micro van. Never would you see that in the states, but we all had a great time chatting in the little van as it made it's way along the crazy Sheik Zayed streets!


Does this look like a sleepy little suburb?.. 500,000 strong!

Our school bus that picks us up at our villa every morning... tough.



A local Mosque

The school rock garden

Stephanie, Matt, and Donna in front of our villa
Wonderful housemates!!!!


Donna working hard by the pool.....



Coming next.... updates regarding our scuba diving training course next week along the Red Sea at Dahab....

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