This past weekend I got to go to Ain Suhkna. It's a beach front town about two hours from Cairo, or about an hour with our driver! We went to go to a fellow teachers family home. When we arrived they were not yet ready to receive us, so we hung out on the beach for three or four hours. It was very hot, but there was a breeze and the water was a nice bath water temperature. It was also very salty. If you look in the background you can see a lot of what look like long black lines on the water. Those are tankers, presumably they are waiting to go through the Suez.
The water was pretty clear up to about three feet and then you lost sight of the bottom. I saw a few fish, nothing bigger than my hand, and one of the other teacher found some sand dollars, but she didn't keep them because they were still alive. Mayumi couldn't make it, so part of my time i spent collecting shells, beach glass, and old coral to give to her on her birthday.
When we got to the house we were greeted by many egyptian women sitting about and the smell of something grilling. All the daedas, (spelling?)servants, were fluttering about getting things ready. We played a few games before eating. I played Pente for the first time with Tom. It was fun to learn, apparently it is a really really old game.
Then we ate. My favorite was Kofta, Jesse and i call them camel turds. They look like a turd and are beef, or camel, ground up with spices. They taste good! For most of the rest of the time we sat around listening to Jesse tell of life on a large pig farm and all the gruesome details that go with that. It was quite entertaining. We got home around ten on Saturday night with school the next day. It was a very nice day, but lasted a long time.
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