Check out the beach beauties! Yes the one that is so pale she glows in the dark is me, but don’t worry, I am now boasting a tan!
The owner of the resort has a son that rids horses competitively so along with the 3 swimming pools, tennis court, movie theatre and peer there was a huge stable with at least 40 beautiful arabian horses! (I know you're drooling at this point mom, they made me think of you a lot.)
Donia and I would walk over to the stables at night and pat the ones that would stick their heads out of their stall windows to catch some of the evening breeze. Every morning they would bring a few of them out to cool down in the ocean water. (Sorry Mom, no pics yet. But we'll be going back before we leave, I'll get some for you then!)
Speaking of my sweet Mom, she wrote me an email (yes! An email! She has actually braved the scary and unfamiliar world of technology to converse with her daughter on the other side of the planet!) saying that she had watched the sun set while riding last night and thought of me. We enjoyed many amazing sunsets on the Red Sea but they were quite different from our slowly crawling Canadian ones. One minute the sun is still hanging warmly in the sky and then, all of a sudden, it’s as through someone has snipped its string and it just drops out of the sky. The point from when it is still hanging in the sky above the water to when it has completely disappeared below the edge of the world takes little more then 10 minutes.
One of my FAVOURITE parts of Ras Sidr was when we would go into town and visit the bazaar. A patch work of sheets, carpets and other random material, this large make-shift tent housed merchants selling everything from uber traditional Galabeya (long tunic-like dresses with Egyptian designs and patterns) to furniture to pots and pans.
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