as the Lord leads: Christmas in Egypt

Last week I had the opportunity to meet up with some friends and spend some time seeing the sights in Egypt. It was great to be there during this time and to be encouraged by them. So for Christmas Eve we got up and headed to the pyramids. We stopped by the Nile for a moment and captured a few shots, then went to a Papyrus Museum and learned all about how to make a sheet of papyrus, went to the pyramids and rode a camel. It was quite a different Christmas Eve of course, and didn't feel like Christmas at all, but maybe living so far from my family and not being able to be with them that may have been a good thing. Nonetheless it was a bit strange because I wasn't with my family and then I wasn't around the things that have been familiar to me for the last 7 months of my life. But it was incredible to be with some girls that have been a huge part of my life since deciding to move to Africa. Then Christmas Day we woke up and opened the gifts that we brought for each other and had dinner with a group of friends, then headed to the movies and saw The Holiday. All in all it was a pretty good Christmas even though it didn't feel like Christmas, at least it's one that I can write down in the books.

This is our reunion at the airport. It was so nice to see these beautiful faces again!

That's the Nile River behind us. We had to stop and take a picture in front of it.

This is at the Papyrus Museum we went to...and yes that's a sheet made of papyrus that we are holding. We learned all the ends and outs of making it...too bad we don't have papyrus in TZ.

Crazy to think that I went and saw these massive things. We are pretty far away from them.

And yes I did ride a camel...who goes to Egypt and doesn't ride a camel to the pyramids?!? Granted I could ride a camel here in TZ but this is classic. hehe...I like to make funny faces

On our way to the pyramids...camel ride not so bad but I wouldn't want it to be my mode of transportation.

The classic pose in front of the Sphinx and pyramids. I'm really here! Never in a million years did I think I would travel to Egypt and see this stuff.