HAve checked our comments and good to see that Trudy is up with the technology even if it took the best part of 6 weeks to set up an account - will put it down to being your busiest time of the year at work!!
Michelle - tell me about the bloody perfume that you and Sue want. Can't seem to get into my email account at the moment so email and blog me please or at least acknowledge that you are working on it so i don't keep hassling you. Great to hear that Sue is getting another dog!!?? Sounds like you and Kingsley are having a very productive summer together. Thanks for the info about Rascal and Amanda - what the hell is Rascal playing at, being friendly and everything. Amanda may want to take rascal home and it sounds like Rascal might want to go.
This arabic/English keyboard is a bit difficult.
Had a day in cairo. Saw and spent some time at the Giza pyramids (can't remeber if I wrote this on my last post). Pyramids were amazing and being there was really airy although there wwere hundreds of other people there also. We both went inside one of them and decided that Michelle would not cope at all.
We were very happy to leave Cairo for Alexandria but the taraffic still scared the living shits out of me and we were in a 18 seater bus. Alexandria itself was really jsut another city. although on the mediterranean it did nothing for me. Went to the museum there which was good but could not really get into the history of it all. Left Alex for Cairo at 2.30pm. Got stuck in traffic 20km out of Cairo and took 2 hours to get in and that was only because we had a fiesty, aggressive bus driver that even took on the traffic police to get us to the train station on time.
Train itself was a sleeper train. Got on at 8.30pm, dinner served to us in our seat at 8.35pm before we had left station. Rice, peas and meat - really big into carbohys here so no chance of losing weights short of getting sick. Bunk beds that pull out from wall, not mauch room once packs are in with you. Can stand one at a time, however we both slept well and I think we were the only ones from our group that did sleep. Arrived Luxor at 7am and saw KArnack Temple. This again was really amazing and is what we have come to see. Don really got into it. Although neither of us know what any of the symbols stand for.
On a river boat for the next 7 days and now being 3 days in to it we have become quite fond of it. The crew really make it. There are 350 boats on this part of the Nile and we have the smallest one, I think we also have the smallest bedroom as well!!! but all very functional.
In Aswan now, still quite cold. Had shorts on for a couple of hours yesterday but not warm really and quite cold at night. Cairo is very cold even in polar fleeces. HAve a free day here, have some optioanl activities to do today but Don and i not interested in them so just going to chill and be hounded by the locals.
Off to Abul Simbel at 3am tomorrow morning in Armed Convoy and going on a camel ride o sunday morning. Still have the donkey ride to do and the donkeys here are very underfed. No way am i doing a donkey unless they strap 2 side by side!!!
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Remember to sit behind the camel driver!
Pete and I had an adventure yesterday - came up from Christchurch via the West Coast, had a great lunch at BayHouse Cafe in Tauranga Bay http://www.bayhousecafe.co.nz/, got the truck stuck at Charleston, had ice creams at Murchison and got to Mahana by late afternoon. Stunning weather all the way.
Good to see you havent lost your sense of humour! And also that you are worried about the local donkeys (or asses as they may sometimes be called!)
Just back from a fantastic weekend at the Lake - 30 degrees inside the bach and then we put the thermometer just inside the front door and had to rescue it when it registered 50! Nasty and windy here in town tho supposed to get to 22 tomorrow. Glad to hear all is well.
Hi Kim and Don. Finally we have been taught how to get hold of you, pleased to hear that you are out of Kenya. Well we have the new eye dog, his name is Jack, he is a pretty boy and is strutting around the place as if he owns it. Missy is the only one growling at him as he wants her to play. It is very dry here, had a good day of rain on Tuesday, need more. The days and nights have been extremely hot you would have enjoyed the heat. Glad to hear everything is going well and you both are still talking to each other. Will enjoy seeing all the photos. Lots of love Sue and Onny
Hello
You are missing nothing in Christchurch! We are all pretty much back at school and working hard to set up for the year ahead.
Sue and Onny are learning how to blog - Onny's on to it now and hopefully there will be a message from them about now.
Perfumes: Thanks for following up, yes we are both keen. Part of the hold up is that I cleverly threw out Sue's perfume card-sample and she's off into town soon to re-select. In the meantime could you please get Sue Amarige by Givenchy? Preferably 100mls and she doesn't mind EDP or EDT. I would really like Hypnose. Preferably EDP and in what ever size works out to be the most economical - if bigger is cheaper per mills, go for it or if there is a pack with body cream on sale, go with that instead. I will be happy with whatever you choose. Like Paris, there are floral Hypnose versions, I just want the standard Hypnose fragrance. Hope that makes sense. If you see a cheap knock off of Coco Mademoiselle in Thailand, grab it. Given your weight allowance issues, perhaps you had better not!! Sue will also have a look for another fragrance and will let you know. I don't mind if it doesn't happen at all as my overdraft is bigger than most of the African economies you have been visiting!
Glad to know Don is in his element in Egypt. Can't wait to see the photos.
Kingsley is on holiday until Monday - has been enjoying some time off doing what he pleases. Not deck staining, apparently. Can we re-hire Don upon his return??
No news from us, must dash.
Lots of love,
Michelle and Kingsley
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