We got in around 915 pm last night. Pat and Dana welcomed us with supper in their beautiful and large apartment and our beautiful bedroom. This morning we went to the pyramids with Ahmed. We went into the grand pyramid I got quite claustrophobic more fear of things falling down then anything else. Trapper expected the pyramids to be bigger. I thought they looked about right. They are way wider then I expected. The thing that I really didn’t know was how much ...

We enjoyed the rest of the evening with the Nile floating by our hotel room last night. We woke up in edfu. We saw the temple there that was very large and well preserved. It was apparently a temple dedicated to winning a war over the hittites with green eyes and short beards and nubians with curly hair and from Africa. Then we continued by minibus to komobo. This was two temples a crocodile god one and one in which cleopatra his out during her worse days. It...

We again started our day at 330. This time we were going on a hot air balloon ride over Luxor and the valley of the kings. It was an hour long flight and it was getting hot towards the end of it. I liked it and enjoyed thinking about how the first people to fly like this would have felt like and how basic this concept of flight was. Pamela loved every minute of it. I may not have looked like it being tired and hungry but I liked it too. I got some great pictures...

Today started stupid early after an hour or two of sleep we headed to the airport around 215. We then dropped off the rental car and headed to arrivals. It was a bit of a show moving through all the various steps but we arrived at our gate about an hour early. I dozed but did not really sleep. It was a painful flight due to exhaustion. St one point I looked over at Trapper and I felt so made for booking the flights. She just looked so tired and red eyed and als...

Our last day in Abu Dhabi. In the morning we took Mom and Dad back to heritage village and we went out for a walk on yas island. In the afternoon we napped. Then we went to Alex’s graduation festivities. Supper was served before hand and we took lots of photos. Unfortunately, I did not take many photos on this phone. The graduation ceremony did not start until 845 pm. After iftar. It was not as boring as I expected. John Kerry was the guest speaker. I was sup...