Falooka Ride

Shanna and I also took a sailboat ride on the Nile in Cairo. The Nile is so beautiful and much bigger in Egypt. Plus it's pretty cool to just be hanging out around one of the most famous rivers in the world. As one of my friends likes to point out every time we see the river 'that was blood. All of that, it was blood!'

This was our driver, a nice old man who left us alone the whole time and just sat in the back singing away.
Here we are. It was a cold, windy day...maybe not that cold but I was certainly freezing!

We were on the boat at 4:15 so our driver had to be sure and do his prayers. It was interesting b/c he didn't wash, didn't have a rug or anything but made sure that he was facing the right direction the entire time. Since we were on a boat drifting on the river he had to continually change his position to keep facing the right way...I don't know why but I thought that was funny.
Here I am hanging out on the boat. We weren't sure if the driver would mind if we climbed around outside of the designated seating area so we just hopped up there and the driver didn't say anything. But I had to hold on to be sure that the wind didn't blow me over the side!!

Part of the city along the waterfront. Cairo is such a tall, crowded place but it definitely makes for a nice vacation spot!