...after quite a good night's sleep, i went over to the hilton next door to check out the fitness facilities...not bad for a hotel's facilities....then i walked around part of the golf course on our hotel's property (the swiss pyramids golf resort)...will walk around the entire perimeter tomorrow...there was a japanese golf tournament happening today...briana and i may try our hand at golf tomorrow...
...at 10 a.m. khaled and yousef met us to begin our trek to the pyramids, sphinx, sound and light show etc....on the way we picked up our guide osama....and yes, we joked about his name....wondering if he was the elusive bin laden....lol....he claimed NOT...not much resemblance either....
...as we were approaching the pyramids....christina let out a squeal of delight...both she and briana are history buffs and were ecstatic on the first sighting...me, well you know me....they are big cement triangles against the azure blue sky in the middle of the desert....ok....all kidding aside they are pretty amazing and quite astonishing to know that they were made by over 100,000 people over a period of 20 years...no cement was used to hold them together...just water and sand...UNBELIEVABLE...we couldn't get into see the largest one cause it wasn't open until 1...prior to getting up close to them, osama gave us the history of how they were built, about the kings including king tut, cleopatra, nephratite, etc....briana and christina were spell bound...i was trying to pick the sand out of my contacts....it was REALLY windy up there...we did go into the middle sized pyramid (kind of like the 3 bears story....papa, mama and baby...sorry i digress!!)...actually briana and christina went all the way in...i backed out because the alleyway down into the bowels of the earth was about 2 ft. wide and you had to bend over to descend, then you reached what you thought was the end only to find there was another alleyway going up which you also had to bend down to ascend...i decided my knees were more important so i and another lady, who i didn't know, went back out where we could breathe...lack of oxygen down there...by the way, timmy....there IS a pizza hut near the pyramids...go figure...didn't eat there though....
...one of the highlights of the day was riding a camel complete with the arabic headdress on our heads....i guess to protect us from the sun....we got pictures of that fun adventure camel caravan...
...we of course took many pictures...one of which was suggested by osama and which i will post when i return to kuwait...it looks as if i am as tall as the largest pyramid and i am pointing down at it....optical illusion...FUN!!...
...after leaving the pyramid site, we went to do some shopping at a shop that made natural oil essences and blown glass perfume bottles, etc....we didn't buy anything there but went on to a store that gave a demonstration of papyrus which is the oldest paper in the world...he showed us the technique...very interesting...then we were left to wander around the shop and buy whatever we wanted....pictures of various egyptian scenes, pharoahs, cleopatra, etc. etc....each of us bought quite a lot but something very unique...
...after shopping we went for lunch...again a buffet...they LOVE buffets here....then went to a dingy little cafe where osama and yousef played a very frenetic game of dominoes while we had a drink...then it was back to the pyramid site for the sound and light show...the actual technical aspect of the show was pretty amazing but the history lesson was kind of lost on me....i have the attention span of a gnat when i am not interested....oh well the other 2 were engrossed so it wasn't entirely a lost cause!!! lol
...after the sound and light show, it was back to the hotel...where briana decided to hit the hay as she had a headache from cracking her head on the roof of the van getting into it earlier on in the day....sorry habipti...hope you feel better...
...tomorrow is my day to 'veg' and i am SO looking forward to it...
...that's all for now folks...later....
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