We still don’t have ice so instead we rehearsed in the discotheque running through numbers on the floor. The big news of the day was we are back to a FULL monkey number. The company finally got it together and replaced the missing heads! I was really stoked to hear this! Even though that is going to be the hottest number for me and it could have been nice to perhaps sit it out, I still just really excited for the news. This caused me to be really into walking through the steps and people were amused by my enthusiasm. BUT I haven’t done that spot since December and I was last doing Brittany’s spot which is near mine so I was slightly messed up at times. And there is a girl doing break work named Megan who is doing Brittany’s monkey so this poor new girl is relying on people around her to help her out and I was probably just messing her up more.
Today Adrienne and I had some major problems ordering food. Our first issue happened at the bar restaurant down in the lobby. Our waitress who was sporting blue eye shadow smeared around the perimeter of her eyes, might I add, was struggling with English. We both decided on the veggie and chicken spring rolls and when I told her this and she looks very confused so I pointed at the menu to show her. Can’t go wrong with pointing right? Well we ended up getting vegetable tempura. It was fine though; we ate it and didn’t complain or anything, I was mostly just blown away that the pointing method failed me. Our second problem happened while ordering room service. (Now don’t think that we are living like rock stars, we just realized that the room service is the same price as downstairs) Well I ordered us two omelets and we were delivered only one. We were both starving so this was not ok! I hope to have some more luck with ordering food in the rest of my stay.
Tonight we went to the light show at the pyramids. The pyramids are killer and I loved getting to see them. We will be going back during the day to really explore them but I’m glad I got to see them lit up at night but the show itself was not that cool. It was this overly dramatic showing with a booming voice over the speakers telling you historical facts and not only did they light up the pyramids they also used lasers to write things and draw pictures on them. They would, for instance, project “455 ft” on the pyramid while explaining how tall it was which just looked dumb. We could here them say that and didn’t need a visual. The trip got me really excited with a taste of the pyramids!
It was about an hour drive to the pyramids and this time we had a really nice bus because some of the other vehicles thus far have been a little more rickety. On the way we passed the valley of the dead or city of the dead which was pretty cool looking. I really couldn’t get a good picture of it from the bus though. We also witness our second crazy accident. I’m not surprised about the accident after witnessing how crazy they drive but what was more shocking was how everyone feels the need to drop whatever they are doing to see accidents. You know the whole deal with how people having to slow down to take a gander at accidents? Well here in Egypt, people out right stop, pull over, and even walk across the highway to take a look! We were able to surpass the craziness pretty easily but I don’t know how people function in such conditions.
Oh I also saw lots of donkeys, horses, and camels near the pyramids! I can’t wait to ride a camel!
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Camels are awesome. Car accidents are not.
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