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After the phone was returned we set off for the Museum. After passing through 4 security barriers we paid 50LE to get in the door to see most of the museum and 100LE to see the Royal Mummy Room. The antiquities were really beautiful. It was an interesting way to pass the morning. I’d pay again to get into the museum, but not again to see the mummies (although they were very interesting to see once). We hadn’t seen many foreigners up until this point and I was disappointed to see so many of the women in tube tops, miniskirts, hot pants and low-cut tanktops. The men weren’t much better in shorts and tanks either. I was also disappointed that in the Mummy room although there was signage asking for silence people chatted away over the dead. It was super, super hot inside the museum (except in King Tut’s room and the Mummy room) so after about 4 hours we left to go to the gift shop for some water. Even when you get ripped-off in Egypt, it’s not so bad. We paid 10LE for a 2L water here (on the street it was 2LE, at the hotel 3LE).
It was even hotter outside so we decided to go back to the hotel for a nap. Later when we got up we decided to buy some of the fruit everyone talks so much about. We picked a fruit stand that had ignored us as we walked past to buy our fruit at (it also had one of the better displays). I was so hungry I didn’t feel like bartering. We bought 6 apples, 3 pears, 6 bananas and he threw in some surprise fruit for 30LE. I was happy to pay it to have some fruit in our room to snack on. I was disappointed when we got home and I took a big bite of my red delicious and it was completely brown inside half of it. The pears were fine. The bananas were a little rotten too.
9/8
I got up at 8 and had a cold shower. Even though I read the Luna has hot water day and night, I think it runs out pretty fast. There usually isn’t any in the mornings. We asked at the front desk how much a taxi would be to the Cairo Sheraton (which is near the studio) and reception said “6LE and this guy is a driver. He’ll take you.” My appointment was at 11 and we left the hotel around 9:45 just to make sure we had enough time to find the place. Cairo is much easier to get around than Tokyo, but I wanted to be sure that I wouldn’t be late. From the Sheraton, we found her place really easily. At 10:00 there was nothing left to do but wait until 11, so we just walked around until 10:55. We also weren’t sure how early to be. In Japan you usually show up 10-15 minutes before the lesson, but I was pretty sure that would be too early here.
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