Photos

Speaking of eyes, Jack...

Sunrise in the desert, our first morning in Egypt.


For our first week here we stayed in Donia's family's beach house right on the Red Sea. It was SO beautiful! The Ocean was practically right on our doorstep. We went swimming everyday, forced out of the water only to eat and when we where sure that no sunscreen in the world could protect us if we spent any more time in the water under the sun.

The summer house was in a desert area outside of Cairo, on the other side of the Suez Canal called Raas-Sidr. It was unusually cool in there for this time of year (but still quite hot!) and there was a constant beautifully cool breeze off the ocean. Every night Donia and I slept outside under the stars on the roof of the home. Below are a few pictures of our room under the stars.


Apparently there is a large population of Gekos in the area that constantly invade the beach homes. This poor, ill fated geko showed up one night and Donia killed it - but not before chasing it around the room as we all screamed and it letting it's tail fall off in hopes that we would loose it's trail. From that moment on I vowed to free any gekos I see before D can get her hands on them!
Every day we would make a trip into the small village nearby to pick up groceries and supplies. The locals would use these clay pots to cool and clean their water. We only drank bottled water though (doctor's orders!)

There were always grazing animals - goats, sheep, even donkeys that would wander by the side of the road. Look! Baby Donkey!!!

The people who live as nomads in the desert are called Bedawin. We often saw them traveling on camels with their herds. These Bedawin started waving at the camera as I was taking pictures.

More on our wonderful time at the Red Sea and pictures to come soon! I am enjoying taking some time to look back and reflect. Now we back in Cairo where we are experiencing a severe heat wave so we are keeping pretty low key and staying indoors as much as possible!