For Mom, Love Steve

After doing some colossal site seeing, I was pooped but happy at my progress. I figured that would be my second change to my usual pattern of traveling. On the first day of arrival I would do the quick bag dump off and then try to get some of the mandatory sight seeing out of the way right off the bat so I don’t have it weighing over me the whole time I am trying to just relax and do nothing. This allotted me with two days needed for sight seeing west side stuff, and the museum. That left me about four days of doing absolutely nothing.

My next occurrence of anything outside of watching tv and air conditioning bed surfing, was meeting up fellow blog writer and reader Snarky. Link to site.
She had responded to my blog a while back and we found that we would cross paths in Egypt. It turned out that she was also in Luxor so we met up for dinner with a couple of friends Joan (not Jill) and Roxanne, a couple of friends that were ripping off the Israeli/Jewish community by going on one of their all expense once in a lifetime sponsored trips to the Jewish homelands for Jewish youths abroad. This is something I am currently working on making myself another fake Id so that later I can also get an all expense paid trip to visit my new homelands of Israel and be Jewish for like a month. We had a nice dinner for a change of pace for me, headed back to the Temple of Luxor for some night shots just to have them turn off the lights just as we had arrived (lucky for them it was before I became Herpieized or there would have been a law suit.) Then we saw a wedding procession then visited the no-hassle shop which actually was no-hassle and which in turn caused the girls to buy a bunch of stuff. Luxor is world renowned as the hassle capital of the world and especially for female travelers. Me not so much for after I made my first walk through the tourist area got into a few shoving matches, called a couple of guys camel fu*****, and got a few to cry, I was pretty much left alone.

Although, I was determined to spend my four days of relax time just relaxing, I did end up going with Erin to the Luxor Museum to check out the airconditioning and to see if maybe the increased knowledge that I received from seeing stuff in a museum would help to invigorate my thirst for all things Egyptian, nope. It did have however pleasant airconditioning, a nice simple layout that was well explained, and the coolest statue that we had both saw, however there was no sign for it so we don’t know what it was about, pity. It did get even better though as Erin got a craving for McDonalds French fries and I more than willingly escorted her to my favorite place in all of Luxor.

The next day Erin, Joan, and Rozanne were on their way to the Red Sea so I bid them adou and headed back to my oasis for some Steveaxation.

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