It's about time

And here is the hard, cold, picture proof that I was actually there. My mother just sent me an email telling me to keep adding snippets about Egypt as they come to me, because that may be the only way you hear about it. Ah, mother, you know me well. 

If you have a $1 bill handy, feel free to check out the back, where you will find that same pyramid. They were breath taking. I always imagined them to be out in the middle of no where, but they were right there! In the middle of town! I do not think that the sight of the pyramids on the horizon could ever get old.

That is how excited I was for the overnight train. I seriously talked about it for weeks before hand. Knocking off the bucket list, my friends. In reality it was super unsanitary and I got quite motion sick, but it's a box checked off the list nonetheless. We left from the JC in a bus, flew a plane from Cairo to Luxor, took some shuttles around Valley of the Kings, rode in a carriage, had a sail boat bring us to our camel ride, took a motor boat (on the Nile, awesome) back to the hotel, and took a taxi to the souk a.k.a. shopping hot spot. Add our own to feet to the list and who wants to count up the different forms of transportation we took in 48 hours?

First, please note how amazingly 90s this picture is.
Second, this is how dirty your jeans become after army-crawling
on top of tombs inside of pyramids. It was quite dark and quite small down there. I pictured the inside of the tombs to be all colorful and intense, but they were pretty much just blank gray walls. Valley of the Kings, however, was another story. Unfortunately cameras weren't allowed, but I've heard Google images actually has some pretty amazing shots. 

Hatsheput's temple. At this point I could pretty much tell you her life story, but that is a little to close to studying and I am trying to keep blog and school separate. So I'll leave it with saying that she was Egypt's woman king. 

More of her beautiful temple

Ramesses II. This is at the Ramasseum, a memorial temple built for him. These are his hands. In case you've never seen Prince of Egypt, Ramesees is thought to have been pharaoh during The Exodus, which means that this man very well may have spoken to Moses face to face, and his mummy is in the Cairo museum. I've been told that looking at his mummy with that in mind is an unreal feeling. I guess I'll just have to come back to Egypt so I can see for myself! 

I was afraid for my life... and then I got on. It was seriously so chill, and such a cool feeling.

I could not get over the fact that they look exactly how they are portrayed in the movies

This picture describes Egypt traffic better than I could

It was freezing. This is one of the like 12 different forms of transportation we took in 48 hours. Honestly, sadly, I don't even remember what day of the trip this was, or where the boat was taking us. The days seriously blurred. All I know is that it was cool. Literally. 

Sinai :) Again, FREEZING! But breathtaking. Our wake up calls came at 2:30, we piled on every layer of clothing we brought, grabbed our flashlights and hit the pitch black trail. The stars were amazing, and props to Kristen who made it up a mountain on a very sick stomach. This really was such a cool experience, I would recommend it to everyone. 

So completely worth it. 

Random side fact: I am looking into the option of the advertising program at BYU, creative track. I mean, it's not one of those things I can just do on a whim, it requires things like a commercial and portfolio and an application, but I am definitely looking into it.