Good morning and happy Friday to everyone!!

We spent the day in Cairo yesterday. Weather was so perfect...blue skies and slightly warm. A great day for taking more pics and doing some last minute sightseeing. We hired a car and driver and I must say it was just fantastic! He picked us up at the apartment, spent all day with us taking us wherever we wanted to go and brought us back to Alexandria. No waiting around for taxi's and no crossing those horrible Cairo streets. Was kinda hard to see Cairo for the last time. Hope we can come back soon.

We will post more pics soon. Hope you enjoy them!
Have a good day and a great weekend.


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what a pretty day in Cairo - the sky was so clear - thanks for the pics

Very nice pics !

I love my city ! (most of the time )

Good morning

Morning Yall its Friday!!

29 more days. i really gotta start going thru my stuff and at least prearranging it. i hate last minute stuff.

hope everyone has a great day!

Wow cool pics, Jeanne -- thanks for sharing !!

One thing though -- I absolutely detest American mall culture, and I really hate that this concept is being exported as something "good." Everyone in Palestine was sooooo proud of the new mall in Ramallah -- complete with lots of shiny glass and mirrors and escalators and generic food court. Bleh..... it's bad enough that we made American towns and cities so homogenized with identical box stores and fast food chains.... now we're ruining the third world with it. I dread the day that Wal-mart opens right next to the pyramids....



-MK

It just dawned on me that it is also payday

Payday here too! Happy Friday everybody!

Jackie

bleh i'm here. gotta go to base to get some stuff done though. blah.

I'm here finishing up my last paper for the semester. Wow can't believe I have 6 Graduate credits done!! 30 more to go....Youssef and I went and had breakfast this morning. It really was soo nice because we rarely rarely have time for anything let alone being able to sit down alone and have a meal (minus children) I mean. It really meant a lot to both of us. Have to finish shopping this weekend, cleaning the house, getting ready for Eid and packing to go home to visit - still on the hunt for cute things to wear.... Boy oh boy...

Payday here too + Christmas Bonus Well, I'm heading out for some serious shopping , after I pay my bills first .


Jeanne, beautiful pictures I got homesick, thanks for sharing!

Hugs,

Ayesha

Happy Friday all!!! Got my son to write a christmas wish list last night so I'll be heading out to the stores to see if I can get anything that is on that list. Most of it is games, poke'mon cards, and yu-gi-oh cards but hey, it is what he wants so that is what I'll try to find. Then it is off to shop for groceries and possibly hunt for some new clothes for me. fun fun fun huh.....

oh, and i saw it is aj1's birthday today....HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPY BIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amal

One of the worst mornings of my life. I hate snow. We're seriously considering relocating to Florida.

If you need any help Jenn, I ll do anything I can to help you

Do it !!! I have lived mostly in warmer states since I was 12 and I have to say I DON'T MISS SNOW AND ICE ONE BIT !!!!! When I go visit my family in Ohio, it's fun to crunch around in the snow -- well, for about 2 days, then it gets reeeeeeeal old. But chipping out the car at 6am, then shoveling the driveway, then trying to navigate icy roads to get to work -- or even just staying home and feeling cold all the time -- not my idea of any way to spend months of my life.

Do it do it do it



-MK

do southern but not Florida!! (as a diehard Northeasterner myself) I couldnt wait to get out.

LOL don't you have a home in FLA to unload ? Thought you'd be extolling the joys of living there to prospective house-hunters..... heh heh....

Just what Egyptians need...another place to buy junk imported from China. I'm so with you, MK.

UGH I sooooooo agree! I hate big indoor malls with the same crap stores in every one of them. Whatever happened to boutiques and uniqueness? I love art and clothes made by locals...not imported from China!

I can understand why you would hate the snow and ice in Boston after living there your entire life. I grew up in CA where the weather hardly changes and it gets really old! Give me some North Eastern SEASONS and culture!

I left work yesterday at 12:30 and it took me 5 and 1/2 hours to get halfway home, what is normally about 30-40 minutes... I had to stop at my parents house cause I just couldn't take it anymore. There was a point, the last two hours, where I literally maybe moved a couple inches. People were standing outside of their cars dusting snow off and trying to figure out what was going on. Turned out two cars were stopped side-by-side on a small hill cause they coudn't get up . I had to drive with the heat on full blast on the windshield so the wipers wouldn't freeze and my windows down cause it was so freaking hot. And then, after about three hours, my phone battery died.

The snow kept falling and I was basically snowed in so I ended up staying at my parents. I woke up and had to chip the ice off my car and was an hour and a half late to work. I'm sooooooooo ready for the two week vacation I have coming up!!!!!!!

How did all of the other northeasterners do in the snow???

Well, Jenn! is having a nervous breakdown.



Thanks, K. There's another storm moving in on Sunday. Would you like to scrape my car?



Raleigh-Durham wasn't so bad....hmmm...

We had both of our cars towed from our street which is NOT a snow artery. Allegedly the police came by with sirens and airhorns, but we're in the back of the building with the windows shut, so we didn't hear it.

There were no cabs available this morning so we had to walk through the snow to the tow lot and spent over an hour trying to get the first car out.

So here I am, $300 and an aching back later.

I'd like to get in on that!

I don't think I can handle another storm........ at least it's on a weekend... and NOT when everyone in Massachusetts is trying to get home




WOW.... I'm getting stressed just reading that. You win

3 hours home yesterday for me--3 hours to drive 36 miles. It sucked so bad and Ramy was so worried because my mom was coming from the same direction, and she arrived at the house before I did.

This morning, 40 minutes late to work b/c I got stuck in my own driveway and I was almost out of gas, so I had to stop again. Should have just stayed home but God am I ever ready for the weekend!!! We're supposed to get another storm Sunday, so I guess it's going to be a terrible flea market day for me, and Ramy's supposed to go film someone's birthday party ($$$!)...but with the weather I'm worried it will be canceled.

I can't wait to get home and relax tonight. And I really, really want to go sledding ....on a real sled, not a car. lol


Jeanne, beautiful pictures! I can't wait to go back there.

ay ay ay i've never been through that! i just jumped in a subway or taxi who already did all the work to scrap the ice off their car. i think having to go through what you guys go through would make me crazy too!

Dear Lord !!!! That's ridiculous !!!!

Texas ain't so bad....

haha I do! but I am not going to blow smoke on how terrible Tampa has become. The housing inflated and jobs moved out. It is now just reduced to the city of pron (even wyclef jean touts Tampa's highlights in his songs!!)... meh - happy to unload it on people who wish to stay, not goign to recommend it to friends moving though! High property tax rates (for the area), high high home insurance, flooding, mold, hurricanes, and 5pm storms that will rival any hurrican daily. Im done!!!!!



We looked into Charlotte NC, Columbia, SC, and a whole bunch of cities peppered around the south & southwest. We want to be warm. We woujd up getting seasons. Not too bad

about the loss in money and achy back

Wow I guess I had it easy! I left work in Charlestown at 2pm and got to the daycare only 15 min late at 3:30. It was slow, like 10 mph, but never a full stop. Some knuckleheads were trying to go fast and ended up spinning out but other than that no biggie BUT I don't drive on major highways and I don't take the Tobin Bridge. I go route 99 to route 16 so I avoid all of that thankfully. The minute we got home the kids booked it across the street with their sleds and stayed out until I called them to come in for dinner. They looked like little frozen popsicles with snow stuck everywhere.

Today the kids had to be in school at 10 so 2 hours late. Cat's snuggled in to me in our lil chair while I attempt to get some work done. I'm in a pissy mood and my whole body aches like a sonofagun so we'll see what I can accomplish today.

As for moving I always fantacize about moving to southern fla when I watch CSI miami 'cause it makes it look so nice but then i look up the crime rates and I remember how hot my sister is all the time in ft. laud and I think I'm ok where I am. I like the snow I just don't like when my basement floods. I wouldn't mind moving to North Carolina though but it'd have to be on the coast since I could never live where I can't smell the ocean.

lol we don't have subways or taxis here. Well. Not where I live--the taxis stop about 20 miles south of my house, and the only passenger railroad we have runs along the shore........

No snow in DC!!! YAY!!! I knew there was a reason I moved here and so far it's working out pretty stinking good!

Great pics
thanks for sharing - i cant wait for my trip to Egypt

Whew- I am loving California right now. I don't know how you guys do it!

Have a good one- yay for Friday!

Cute pics, Jeanne. Ok don't take this the wrong way but I had to do a double take...you look so much like my grandma but a bit younger. This is no joke. I wish I had a pic of her on my computer to post it.

Oy.

WOW what a great compliment!!!

2 1/2 hours of work then I am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee til Monday. oh oh oh take that back ,,they just told me to take off now!!!!!!!!

Yahooooooooooooooo. I totally love my job today.

JJ

That almost always means they will....

OMG you so hated it earlier!!! lol. Good for you!!!

Does Wael look like your Grandpa?

Tired. Taking the bus to Boise for the Winter Break. Done with finals. Feels like a steam roller ran over me. I need this break.

Awesome!

HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU ALL!!! I HOPE EVERYONE'S DAY IS BETTER THAN MINE. ITS MY BIRTHDAY AND NOBODY IN MY FAMILY HAS WISHED IT TO ME. NOT EVEN MY HUSBAND, AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, HE WENT TO THE STORE AND BOUGHT BOOKS FOR HIMSELF AND NOT EVEN A CARD FOR ME


I REALLY HATE MY BIRTHDAY AND TODAY WISH I WERE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday?

Sounds a bit dramatic to wish to be dead, but anyways, I hope things get better.

Jean....Thanks for sharing the pics you both look so happy together and as always the sites in your pics bring back great memories. I have that same pic with the hand over the pyramid! lol I am glad that you have had this time together in Egypt before coming to the US. I wish that I could do that too and stay there until we get the visa.

Looking forward to more pics when you can post them!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Terrie,

Just to note that birthday's aren't really celebrated in Morocco - at least my husband said he had never heard or seen celebrations like here. In fact there's a lot of people who don't even know when there's is. Just something to think about.

But Happy Birthday from me

I remember Wadi and I had been dating for over a year and I asked him when my birthday was. He said June 28 instead of June 27, and I was pretty pissed off. Looking back on that now makes me laugh...he was pretty darn close! I'd be impressed if he knew it even now.

Oh, happy bday, Terrie!

THANK YOU TO ALL YOU WHO WISHED ME HAPPY B-DAY. NOT KNOWING ALOT ABOUT MOROCCO, MY HUSBAND TOLD ME THAT MEN DON'T CELEBRATE LIKE THE WOMEN DO. i DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST HAVING A ROUGH DAY, CAUSE MY BOYS ARE KIND OF ESTRANGED FROM ME, AND 19 YEARS TOMORROW MY MIDDLE SON DIED. SO MY BIRTHDAYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BIT HARD. SORRY DON'T MEAN TO GET ANYONE DOWN. I WILL STOP