ABU SIMBEL! The most expensive tour of our trip but of course my favorite! Three hour trek out here, convoys of tourists travel out only two times a day, the trip is through the desert and it makes tourists easy targets so they all go in huge groups and with tourist police spread out through the vans/buses etc. So Abu Simbel was built by King Ramses III. it was built out of the heart of the moutain so the whole temple is one peice. When they damed the Nile river the temple was covered so they cut the temple in 40 000 peices and relocated it to this spot. The temple however, was built in a very particular manner. The chambers inside the temple were built in such a way that the back most chamber was lit only twice a year by the sun, Feb 21st and Oct 21st. The year he was crowned and his birth year. when they moved the temple they made an inch of a mistake and now it is lite on the 22nd of both months.... aw. haha.



Here is the temple out of the same mountainn that was built for King Ramses III's wife.. well one of them he had 52. Apparently this one was the most beautiful woman in Egypt. Fun fact, he also married his daughter, who is present in all of his statues... you can see her in between his feet in the first picture (all statues are of him in that picture)



This next picture was taken inside a house in a Nubian village, in this house they raise crocs until they are 10 months and then put them in the nile. Apparently crocodiles are having a hard time now with the dam. They also had four croc eggs that they showed us, were supposed to be hatching in a couple of weeks.

This is a Felluca! We spent a day on one, floating down the Nile.

Wow it seems like forever since Egypt. Here is a picture of maybe the only flowers in Egypt! no but really, flowers are so much prettier there because they are so rare. I think we took pictures with most of the ones we came across



Heres a picture at the pool at our Isis resort is Aswan. Niceee spot. After coming from Cairo it was 5 star to us



A picture of a man making Paprus paper, it's made out of the stem of the papyrus plant, a bit of a procedure but it is supposed to last forever, its what the ancient egyptians used back in the day.



The Sphinx! So cool to see, this was one of my must see's of Egpyt.

Hiking In JUNE!
From the weather report we checked before we headed out for our hike in Nordegg we were all expecting to hike in flurries, but I can't say I was expecting the four foot drifts on top of the mountain, otherwise I may have brought a decent coat, mittens and something besides runners. haha. Soo beautiful. It was quite foggy most of our climb up but as the day went on it got milder and the fog lifted a bit... making for a slippery decent, I have marks to prove this. haha.

Egypt!
Finally I am getting around to putting these up. Thanks to a few computer issues (grr technology) these are over a week late. So we survived. The trip started out a little rough, (no sleep, airlines lost our luggage, random men claiming to be taxi drivers, etc) but ended up being amazing. Heres a few pictures from the first few days. I'll try and put some more up soooon!

Loving the traveling look, sneakers with sweatpants. I'll tell ya. On the way to Egypt I had so little room in my back pack I had to end up wearing half of my clothes, but on the way back my backpack was only half full! Must have been all the practice I got packing my bag in ten minutes everymorning..

Heres the Egyptian museum, unfortunately we couldn't take pictures inside of the museum. It was amazing, we could have spent an entire day. We hardly even got to see half the rooms. Most amazing display was deffinitly King Tut's, seeing his mask. The famous mask, it was kind of odd to be actually seeing it in front of me. Because they dicovered the tomb before thieves it has been the only tomb found with everything intact. The mummy of King Tut had 14 cases (Im not sure the exacte word they used), the largest being the size of a small room, right down to a casket like covering that was made to fit his body as it would have been lifesize (when they mummify a person the body shrinks).

Camel riding!! So much fun. My camel was at least 95 years old. His name was snoopy. haha should have been droopy the poor guy needed his pension and a good retirement home. He did manage to make it the whole 5 minute (NOOOT long enough) treck in the desert... along with some very interesting grunts.

This was all in the first day. Crazyness. Basically everything one expects to do in Egypt was all in day one of our tour. Museum, Pyramids, going inside the pyramids, camel riding, sphinx.

How much is that doooogie in the window...

I can NEVER get a good picture of my cat, no matter what she looks like when Im snapping the picture she ends up with her ears all back, her eyes popped and her fur appears to be falling out in clumps. Its kind of a joke by now. But I think I finally got a rather normal portrait of dear old Muffin (HA). Cindy also very kindly posed for a picture (which she held for 2 micro seconds and then jumped up to give me a not so needed face wash), I had to trick Jasper into taking a picture by distracting him with his newly aquired favorite Towel from my grandmothers house.. I tried calling him over, but after 2 minutes of feigned deafness I had to resort to my previously stated plan...

BLOGGED

I got a Blog! How silly, as if I needed somewhere to waste more time..

So it all started this weekend, I was visiting my Grandma in Miramichi and had a little photoshoot with my beautiful little cousins, I decided it would be fun to post them in a blog! Random? yes probably