1. Mandy didn't lose one single arm-wrestling match against the street boys we played with today.
2. Lori has new friends who call her Rambo, all because of her headband (and her guns).
3. We were all proposed to today and had rings put on our fingers. Lori and Katie accepted, but Mandy's holding out for an Israeli.
4. We met four amazing Egyptians who are so willing to give of their time and talents to help street kids. El-Hammi is the main director of the program and is known all over the country for his art TV show. He taught us how to make clothespin animals. I made a shark, Mandy made snowflakes, and Lori thought about making a camel.
5. Even though it cost us 70 pounds to pay our taxi driver Tarik to get us to the wrong terminal in the airport, it only cost 15 pounds, 15 minutes, and 50/50 English and Arabic to fix the problem and get to the right terminal! And the right terminal was way less crowded, so we didn't miss our flight! It all worked out.
6. Aunt Marlene made us a yummy home-cooked meal of angel hair pasta in a sweet honey mustard sesame sauce with chicken and carrots. SO delicious!!
7. Our last 45 minutes or so at home in Egypt we relaxed and watched our favorite parts of Enchanted while eating ice cream! (Egypt sells Snickers ice cream bars here!)
8. We're headed to the second leg of our journey--blue skies and blue water! I'm hoping for more white, fluffy clouds like we saw in Alexandria, and for some white walls like in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I can't wait! We arrive at 12:55 a.m. in Cyprus, and the Checketts are picking us up from the airport.
9. It's only Sunday even though it logically seems like Tuesday (because the Sabbath is on Friday) and feels like Saturday because we played all day with the little boys.
10. We had Greek candy for the first time--joker chocolates handed out on the airplane.
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