Doing a little Yoga at sunrise on top of Mt. Sinai
Bro. Huff and I on top of Sinai. We were the first group to summit. It took us about an hour to get to the top so we ended up sitting in the freezing wind for about 2 hours. It was so bloody cold that Steph, Michael, and I had to cuddle. Probably the single funnest thing we've done all trip - the hike that is... not necessarily the cuddling.
I think this Scarab beetle statue was at the Karnak temple in Luxor. Rumor has it that if you walk around the statue thing 7 times, you'll get married... I was all over that. Every succeeding round after that = 1 kid.
This is a depiction of the "sacred embrace" inside of the Luxor Temple. There is a ton of symbolism relating to our temple... except for the "happiness" of the priest. According to Bro Skinner that suggests strong seed and isn't sexual... of course. Note my amazing photo taking skills with the glaring sun covering up half the carving - its sad that this is one of the better pics i have to post on the blog
The Big Cat -Russ-, Rach, and Michael after the longest day of having the runs and having to listen to our tour guide that nobody could understand. This sums up our time in Luxor. I think there were only 3 or 4 out of 90 people who didn't get sick.
This is a shot from my hotel window in Luxor. I love this shot. We stayed at some of the nicest resorts I've ever been to.
Mr. "Bakshish" - that means "tip" in Egyptian. This became my modo for life. Everywhere you go and everybody that confronts you asks for "bakshish"... even the police you take pictures with. I found out that if you ask for a bakshish before they have the opportunity that you can totally steal their thunder - its way fun. Also, the title "welcome to alaska" is what everbody says when they welcome you to their blazing desert country. I started telling all the shopkeepers and guards I talked to that I was from Alaska. It makes them so mad because thats the best joke they have.
I like this pic. If I wasn't totally, utterly worthless with a computer I would figure out how to cut out the tourists from my pictures but I don't care enough to learn.
Me and "Michael Douglas" - my camel... oddly enough he looks exactly like michael douglas. I paid $1 to sit on top of my first camel. It was probably the best dollar i've ever spent. We went on a way long camel ride later on in the trip, but this was so much better than that ride.
For some reason there is this big fad of doing these jumping pictures. Everywhere we go, kids do these little jumps in front of every single sight. Eric and I had to do one our own. This has kind of become our trademark in front of a lot of the sights.
This is my buddy that just wanted to be my buddy. I am a novelty with my blonde hair and blue eyes... even with crazy old pyramid dudes. Actually I think he really just wanted to sell me something but I told him I have no bakshish for him. He was cool though.
Laser show at the pyramids the first night we pulled into Cairo. I can just imagine Dust getting caught up on one of those pyramids when all the lights burst on to them. I wanted to try to climb the great pyramid so bad, but its a lot harder to pull that off these days. A bunch of students got busted and put in jail for climbing the pyramids a couple of semesters ago. Egypt police are harder to buy off these days i guess. Plus our head teacher called us out on trying to climb the pyramids. Bummer.
Our first view of the Pyramids. They were way bigger than I ever expected.So thats about it for Egypt. After writing this I just realized that all the pictures are in reverse order so if you're reading this paragraph right now, relook at all the pics from bottom to top... or don't worry about it - just a fyi.
