Cairo

I have been meaning to post pictures from my sight-seeing day at the pyramids in Egypt from way back in December! I was there in Cairo doing some research into the deaf schools there. It was kind of a bad time to visit since the Christian community was preparing for Christmas and the Muslim community was preparing for their Eid/holiday. No one was much interested in talking to me about deaf schools. I did learn some interesting things and stopped by the pyramids to take a picture or two! My family used to live in Cairo when I was a little girl (we actually had to evacuate from Gaza and went to Egypt- we were put on a bus in the middle of the night, left our house and all of our things to narrowly escape an up-surge in violence from the first Gulf War. We lived in Cairo for 4 months until it was "safe" enough to return to Gaza. That's a whole, other story for another day, though). So I've been to Egypt several times since we lived there but, still, it had been about 10 years since my last visit. Returning was both familiar and strange with moments of recalling good memories and hard ones.

My friends and I took a quick trip to see the Pyramids, since they're so magnificent! Here are some photos of that day:

This picture amused me. Camel owners offer to take you, on camel or horse-back,
on a ride around the sandy dunes which surround the pyramids so that you can
get the full experience of the desert. It's actually really fun (but I'd already been there,
done that and didn't care to this time).

Here I am.... on the look-out point where all the tourists go to take
good pictures.

There are six "smaller" pyramids where wives and children of the
Pharaoh's were buried. They are some distance away, though, and we
didn't see them this trip.

The three main pyramids. They look small in this picture.... they're huge in
reality.

So there you have it. I am packing today for my next trip, which will be to Morocco and Tunisia, two places that I have never been to. I am looking forward to seeing new things and, hopefully, learning about the deaf community in those countries. I will try to post from there. Keep me in your prayers!