Day 171

July 9^th

In order to pick up Chris I decided to take a cheaper route and took the city bus out to the airport. This cost me just 2 pounds, much better than the 50 than I had paid the taxi to go pick up Megan. It was surprisingly nice too, as it wasn’t too crowded and it had air-conditioning. There were a few moments when I thought that it might not be the right bus but I ended up at the airport and wandered over to the terminal. I had some time, and after learning from last time, I brought a book. So in typical, Rory fashion, as soon as I found that the plane was on time, I picked a spot outside in the sun and read for about 30 minutes. After getting too hot, I headed in and continued reading. A family who was also waiting for someone sat down in front of me. There were the two cutest daughters ever and the dad had more hair than I thought possible was on a body. The hair literally overflowed from his t-shirt around his neck. It was kind of gross, okay really gross. Chris got through customs really quick, much quicker than Megan, and so we headed back to Zamalek. I got a cab for 60 pounds, including 5 pounds extra because I thought the traffic was terrible. We got back to the dorms, got him settled and then got some euro-deli. I really love the fries there. We then mulled around for a little bit and went to Ultimate in Maadi. The metro there was packed, a great welcome to Egypt for Chris. We got another ride back to Zamalek and this time it didn’t take 2 hours. However, I did learn some more interesting things, like the really tall building next to the Fish gardens is actually unoccupied as the owner of it didn’t plan for a garage, and since the owners of the land next to the tower didn’t sell him the room to build a garage no one wants to live in the building. We got back and went to Felfela for dinner, after having a miscommunication issue with Megan as she thought we were going to meet her there. Oh well.