OK, so something bizarre has happened to my e-mail. It's all disappeared. If you sent me any messgaes of love in the last 24-36 hours (which you surely should have), then they've somehow disappeared into the void. Perplexing, yes, I know.
So we saw about... 9? 11? pyramids yesterday. Today's tour guide, Ayman (on whom I may have the slightest major crush) informed us that there are 110 pyramids still in existence in Egypt.
Anyhow, Ayman the tour guide (our driver's name was also Ayman) took us around Coptic Cairo--the part of the city where some of the oldest Christian churches in the world are. It was pretty cool--the main church is 1200 years old (although Ayman was sure to remind us numerous times that there had been many, many restorations, so that parts of the church were 1200 years old and other parts relatively new by standards of Egyptian history).
We also visited a synagogue, a Greek Orthodox church, and a crypt where the Holy Family supposedly hung out for a while when passing through Egypt. We then took a stroll aorund a sort of "normal" neighborhood, where we were the only tourists in the area. It was nice to see.
This afternoon we booked our travel arrangements to Luxor/Aswan/back to Cairo. We're going to fly, as we couldn't pay for train tickets with our credit cards. Lame.
Anyway, we're headed now to the Khan (a big street market), then are going out tonight with some of Aice's girlfriends to (a) see the sun set from a fellucca on the Nile (b) have drinks and dinner.
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