I received an email from the Cairo Consulate stating the following for anyone who is dealing with them right now and might need to know:

The Consular Section will be closed effective October 5, 2006 until October 8, 2006. The Embassy will be opened to public effective October 9, 2006.

On a completly seperate note, my company has world wide offices and almost all of them are closed during this time or at least one of the days mentioned above. Sorry...just daydreaming about a day off.

Hmmm... Maybe I should call in to work tomorrow and say "sorry the consulate is closed so I can't work today" and see how confounded that leaves my boss and for how long.

I'm out of sick days so I will just call in dead.

............. but is that with pay?

I'm dead..who cares?

*whispers*... I thought you were pretending


This is very bizarre. As I'm sitting here I keep getting these automated emails from the Cairo Embassy. The last one said "Our offices will be closed for administrative purposes 9/28 and 9/29. Ahem... isn't today 10/4? Or am I in the wrong dimension again...

The biggest reason this is bizarre is that out of the last 5 emails I've sent over many weeks, I received 2 replies. Now I hit the motherload of useless responses. I can take a hint. No more inquiries. I will go back to pretending to be a mushroom. *sets out the orange warning cones*

Despite all of Ammans warnings to leave them alone, I was relentless. I think they moved my date up because they were sick of me.

Hi jean
well I think they are closed beacuse it's national holiday in Egypt it's 6th October war memory that's why it's off days every where in Cairo ..the funny thing they are off in Egyptian and American holidays!!!

Yep. Stupid me. I should have remembered that. I had to sit through an entire day of movies dedicated to the holiday with Mohammed while he chattered away about every little nuance of the history until I was completely buggy from it. HOW I could forget is beyond me. lol Maybe its post traumatic shock syndrome... *cough*

All US Consulates recognize American and local holidays. The Consulate in Casablanca is closed for American and Moroccan holidays too.

I looked up the holidays on the consulate website for this year. Turns out we picked the right day to be married. The consulate was closed Jan. 7 for Coptic Christmas, open on the 8th (our wedding day), then closed the 9th-11th for Eid al Adha.

When is Eid al Adha this year? Same dates?

Eid al Adha will be Dec. 30-Jan. 1 this year inshallah. Islamic holidays usually move up 10 days every year.

What day are you leaving for Egypt? I left the 26th of Dec. last year.

I'm leaving 8pm Christmas night. I'll spend the morning and afternoon with the kiddies and then their dad will pick them and me up and drive me to the airport. funny how my ex is driving me so that I can go get married. We have a pretty cool relationship that way and....his wife...the woman he left me for , will be there toooooooooooooooooooo! lol

Anyways I'm psyched that it will be Dec 20-Jan 1 since Usama kept saying he hopes hopes hopes that I'll be able to see the festivities there. I have no idea what he means since like....aren't those festivities in Mecca? Anyway I'm sure it will be fun.

Hahahaha I saw NO festivities for Eid al Adha. That was the most uneventful big holiday ever. I have better Eid here in the states. Maybe in Cairo it's different though. Maybe the festivities he's talking about are the sacrificing of the animals. Blood in the streets..yuck! Thank God I was in the house all day and didn't go out until evening when most (not all) of the blood was washed away. I did have to walk under corpses of animals hanging and dripping blood. Oh yeah FUN festivities.

Are you serious???????


He said it's something that happens in the mosque.

I'm serious.

I don't know what goes on at the mosque. I know that after fagr a parade of children and adults walk to streets and chant. That was kinda cool. Other than that it was...BORING!!

Moody how is Eid al adha here ? I am really curious since I already feel sad Iam not in cairo now in Ramdan I just adore the atmosphere there now

Eid al Adha or Eid al Fitr here is really how you make it. In the past I would get together with other ladies and have a party at home. Usually the first day of Eid we take the kids to Chuck E. Cheese in Dearborn or Ann Arbor since there is a large Muslim/Arab community in these cities. The second day is usually the mens' day and they all go to a certain family's home and have dinner while the women take care of the cooking and kids. The third day is womens' day and the women gather and either cook or order out and the men take all the kids. It's really nice.