Andrew and I are in Cairo. We arrived yesterday afternoon, spent the afternoon/evening wandering around yesterday, did the pyramids this morning and are going to do some more sights this afternoon.

I'm sure that if I gave it a bit more of a chance I would find things I like about Cairo, I usually do about most cities, but right now it seems like a bit of a dump. It's incredibly dusty and polluted, which is not really unexpected. The people are really the disappointment. It feels like every transaction is a scam. We got the old short change scam when coming back from the airport. When going to the pyramids the driver took us to the 'Pyramiso' hotel, and then demanded more when we wanted to go the real Pyramids (we didn't pay). The pyramids were full of people claiming to be official who obviously weren't. I've been to lots of places with touts and so forth, and often they have something of a sense of humour about the whole thing. Here it seems a little more mean spirited.

Anyway, we are headed to Luxor tomorrow and then the Sinai Tuesday night, pick up some more commandments.