restless

Feeling a little bit restless on day 2 at our lovely airport hotel. Actually, it is quite lovely, thankfully, but I am ready for some action again! We are interested (excited?) to meet the others in our tour group and are hoping for some other cool, young people to hang out with and not all retirees. Not that retirees aren't cool and all...

We are taking advantage of this downtime to do a lot of people-watching, especially to see how the women are dressing and behaving. As far as Muslim countries go, Egypt seems pretty tame, but definitely still very limiting for women. From what I've read it's unusual, if not unheard of, for an Egyptian woman to sit in a cafe, travel alone, drink alcohol and of course bare her upper arms or legs. After being hidden away for the entire beginning of Israel, my shoulders and knees were very happy to get some sunshine in Eilat. Looks like they are going into hiding again though. At least the temperature here in Cairo is not nearly as oppressive as it was in most of Israel. Yet. (Typical temperature in Southern Egypt should be around 110 this time of year.) Another cultural phenomenon we are trying to get used to is not holding hands or showing affection in public which apparently is taboo.

That's all I've got for now! I hope everyone has a great weekend. Tomorrow we see the pyramids - lots of excitement to come!