Pyramids and Camels

So, it's been a while since my last post because I have been busy and had no internet. Since my last post I have:

gone camping in the desert
ridden a camel
seen some pyramids
started language school
gone to my neighbor's engagement party
and there should probably be more to this list

We'll start with the camping trip. It was fun but we rode in the back of this prison looking truck. It was sort caged in so the air would flow through (which was nice) but it really did look like we were prisoners, ha. On the way we stopped on the side of the road because we saw these ball looking things. They are called desert pumpkins but are dried up, very lightweight, and easy to throw. So we had a "snowball fight" in the middle of the desert with these things.

Our first stop was the pyramids where we were greated by the men on camels and 2 bus loads of native children cheering as the white people drove up. It was pretty hilarious. So we get out of the truck and some of us (not me) proceeded to step in camel poo (camels really smell bad by the way). Then we decided to all roll down the sand dunes together. I enjoyed this except for the sand EVERYWHERE!!! :-) I think I still have sand in my ears. After this excitement we saw the pyramids and climbed on some of them. It was cool because most of them had hyroglyphics carved inside them. When were done with the pyramids we rode the camels back to the entrance. Definitely an interesting experience :-)

The next stop was the Royal City. So I am imaging this great eleborate city-no- it's the RUINS of this city. It was still pretty cool though. There was this mosaic tile floor from way back, still intact in the middle of the desert! We got to rinse of some of the sand off in the Nile and headed back to the truck. We stopped on the side of the road for lunch (in the shade).

On our way to the "campsite" we stopped where we were going to stay. Unfortunately there was family already there cooking their dinner- a salughtered goat, nice and ripe.... They gave us some "7 up" and we thanked them and left real fast before they offered us something else....

We finally got to our camp site and met up with some of our other people. There was this like mini-mountain thing of rocks so we climbed to the top, very proud of myself :-) We ate and slept under the stars.

Next on the list- langauge school. I started yesterday and now know the arabic alphabet. That's going well.

The neighbor's engagment party was interesting and I don't have time to write about it now, but will later.

Last but not least I wanted to leave a shout out to the Access Youth group (I hope I spelled the new name correctly...) I miss you guys tons! Keep in touch with me and let me know what is going on in your life (comments on here, facebook, email, etc) Hope to hear from you guys soon ;-)