day 5 in the land where my breasts swelled to an unnatural size*

freshmeat: i'm ignoring it. it's the american way.








the night before we disembarked from the cruise, the british couple took us to a "cocktail" bar that was just a few ships down (where we docked there wasn't enough room so we had to walk through 3 other boats before we came to the actual dock. remember this for later). not only was the beer 10 E£ (roughly $1.80), but the restroom was clean. awesome.

so as we are sitting there getting more and more drunk, i remember that i had to go back to the ship to purchase something (as did freshmeat, but i riffled through her wallet so she didn't have to leave). so the husband of the couple offered to walk back with me. we step through all three boats only to realize that our boat is no longer docked there. we were staring at the black nile. luckily one of the crew told us that the boat had moved, but didn't tell us how far down (turned out it was just the next boat over). but nothing will ever be like the drunken panic i felt when i realized the boat was no longer where it was supposed to be.



anyways, fast forward to the next morning, where all four of us can barely stand the thought of having to see yet another temple.

we were seeing two that day.


the first was one i had REALLY been looking forward to seeing: Karnak. it's massive! sadly our guide only took us through HALF of it. pissed didn't even begin to describe how i felt. but regardless, the half i did see was so impressive. there is still paint on the bits of ceiling that is still left! how crazy is that?


after that we were taken to the Luxor temple. the site even has a mosque from the 12th century (under restoration). are starving and tired. so perhaps we didn't give the site the attention we should. of course our guide took us all the way to the back to show us a drawing of a pharaoh with a VERY extended hum-a-hum (yeah, i totally took a picture of it...i'm just that klassy).



once we were back i went out to purchase some water from a shop that advertise it cheap. what a mistake. what should have taken me about 5 minutes was more like 10. the guy tried to sell me everything from "gin, whisky, beer" to an earring. luckily i didn't need to go back. ever.




that evening freshmeat and i ventured out to find this koshari place that was supposed to be awesome. what ended up happening was us in the dodgy part of town, no english signs, no westerns...just us and the locals. we never found the shop, but we did find another take away restaurant (i won't even explain the horrors of trying to uncap the soda bottle at the hotel without something to pop it). on our way back we found this spice shop, where i bought some mixture of spices (still not sure...black pepper with chili powder and cinnamon?).


i ended the night with logging onto the internet to check e-mail.

it was like manna to my soul.




*seriously. when i saw the photos of myself, all i could do was stare at my chest and wonder what happened.