There were many British people there,(one gentleman took this photo for us) and we met some Germans, Dutch and even Danes. Many of the people at the resort were from Ukraine and Russia(and a few from other former Soviet countries, it is one of the places that they can go to without applying for a visa. That's how we got a package tour, and as one Ukrainian told us it is wonderful because it is all-inclusive. You can get visas when you arrive at the airport for 15 US dollars, we bought them, because you need them if you take a tour. However we ended up staying at the resort, except for a walk down the street a few times to use the internet, once I was going to post the following but the internet cafe would only open Microsoft word in Arabic, so I couldn't cut and paste it in so all you got to see that day was my bird photos.
Here's Garry with a cool tree with flowers that looked like bottle brushes!
Well Garry played so much volleyball and water polo the first week he had to take it easy for a couple days to start week two because his knees were swollen and sore. I guess we should have stayed for just one week! We are enjoying the snorkeling; there is a great reef with lots of different fish to see right off the docks in the photo. Since I just float on the top of the water and look I have only gone from one dock to the other, but have seen as many fish as when we took the boat snorkeling tour two years ago. Garry went for a couple long morning swims, but the water is pretty cold, not like it was the first time we went to Sharm El Sheikh with Seth and Jonah in May 2010.
Garry and I have been reading some Michener books, we both read Caravan and I am re-reading Hawaii. I have been working on a new crochet project and doing some watercolor sketching, and have done aqua-aerobics some mornings. We have gone to the internet café down the street four times, it is 6 dollars for a half hour. The hotel has wireless, but charges about five times that with a half hour minimum, so we haven’t used it. We have CNN for news (we know all about Jeremy Lin and Whitney Houston- but I am wondering about the Flyers and Sixers) and a couple English channels that mostly show movies when we are indoors.
Getting ready to have the pretty girls stand on top of the nails on his stomach with the broken glass under his back.
We have had a couple unusual things happen- during the fakour show (the guy with the nails) I told you about last post, it sprinkled giant raindrops for a couple minutes, which doesn’t happen often here. We have only seen 3 shows, since some nights we fall asleep before 9:30 when they start.
Saturday night we saw the Oriental (or Egyptian) show with dancers and a guy who spin around for at least 5 minutes while doing things that were rather like juggling while spinning. Garry said he got dizzy just watching him. We also had a very nice meal at the Egyptian style restaurant at the beach front that night, and are looking forward to eating there again Thursday night. The rest of the time we eat at the main buffet restaurant or at the beach café for lunch (hamburgers, hotdogs and french-fries.)
Tuesday Garry was suffering with tummy troubles- strange because on last trip to Egypt he was fine, the boys and I were sick. Anyway we were sitting out on the balcony around 4:30 enjoying the warmer weather – it is back to highs of 26 C after a few days where it barely hit 20 (about 68 F) when there was a huge explosion with stuff blowing high up into the air off toward the beach- it must have been hundreds of feet from our room- we are one of two top floor rooms, there are five rooms in our villa. We were told it was one of the rooftop water heaters that blew up, and some debris drifted into the pool below us. They made everyone get out so they could clean it up-it was mostly yellow insulation. Hopefully no one was hurt.
We never did see where the explosion happened...
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