Here I am

Hopefully I can quickly figure out how to use this typewriter at the library in Alexandria. There are a lot more keys on the keyboard.

It is Tuesday and the first time I have been able to get online to post to the blog. The computer doesn't work at the hotel anymore so I haven't been able to do anything. It has been a magical, wonderful trip. I would never have believed I would be sending a message to family and friends from the New World Library in Alexandria while looking at the Med. Sea!!! How cool is this! Ed is working right now but I don't have much time here. It is an unbelievable library.....yes, Ash, better than the library at BYU.

My entire time has been spend doing so many amazing things....seeing all the things I have read about my whole life. The pyramids are amazing and just about anywhere else I have gone we have do drive on streets where you see the pyramids on the horizon. I asked our guide if he thought that the people who live across the street from the Sphinx understood the great history the looked at every morning. He said no....it is just a thing that tourist come to see.

The Cairo museum yesterday was also amazing. It is very large with so many things in it, from very small pieces of stone or gems to colossal statuary. Most of the things are not labeled, except with a number, because they are not known. But those things that we do know about.....like Tut are absolutely fabulous.

It is so surreal for me to realize what I am seeing. Ed walked through the museum on Saturday before I arrived because he knew that I would want more time. I spent only six hours and I didn't get to all of the rooms before I had to leave. Perhaps I will return again on Thursday.

We have had a driver and a guide everywhere we went, but most of the tourist places have people who speak very good English, at least well enough to get by. I am on my own for the first time now, Ed and Abdul-Aal had to go to the port here so they just dropped me at the library, and I think they were a little worried but I am having a great time.

I hope all is well with everyone. I wish you were all here to enjoy these wonderful people and their unique country.