Cairo that night was interesting. We had to ask three or four different people for directions to find pencils, finally a guy from a perfume store showed us a shop that, unfortunately, we already knew about and were about to go to, Swaffie ended up going to the guy's store briefly because he showed us the way. Then I tried to track down a specific gift for a friend or two back home, ended up in a guy's shop, he called his brother, had to buy something from him (though it was nice), waited a while for his brother, chatted with him a bit, brother showed up, led to me another shop where I FINALLY found what I was looking for, and then finally got back to the hotel. Wake up, breakfast, quick housekeeping meeting, eat at Hardee's which was a mistake for a number of reasons. Turns out we all hate eating food fast now, we've gotten so used to non-American ways of eating. It really just felt... gross and unenjoyable. I showed Swaffy the last store I went into, he tried the museum store too, guy was looking for a bracelet and had no luck. One of the door guys showed me a Batista video and a Jean Claude Van Damme video, which was amusing, bus showed up, I was pretty sure I lost my coat (it ended up in Caitlin's bag, probably because I tossed it on the bag pile) and off to the airport. Tickets passports security, nap in the airport, play around with these silly table games like rolling a marble through a labyrinth or matching all the little balls in their color cup, on the plane, read The Physicists, sleep, wake up, watch Dexter's Lab, miss the food and drinks due to sleep but oh well. Get into Turkey, onto a bus, quickly drop our stuff off at a NICE hotel, off to dinner.
By the way, Turkey? Far colder than expected.
Have dinner at a nice place right on the water, we had bread, salad, meat with delicious pepper, spaghetti, fries, and some amazing fruit as dessert. We all got a sip of Denny's Efes Dark beer, which was a tasty tasty beer, though I didn't order one. Back to the hotel, fool around with trying to figure out my classes and internet, to bed. Wake up half an hour before the wake-up call, shower, and I think we're going to Troy today.
Sunday, March 7th, roughly 6:40-6:50 AM
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