26/11 to 1/12 : Guillaume in Egypt, Part 1

Hiya!
Past Thursday Guillaume came to visit me in Cairo. His plane arrived at 20:50 PM. I went to pick him up by taxi, together with Kaz,because his parents arrived with exactly the same plane (talking about coincidence). We had a problem though : apparently there are 2 airports in Cairo, an old one and a new one. Kaz and I didn't know. The taxi driver dropped us off at the old one, when it turned out Guillaume and Kaz's parents were at the new one, which is about 5 minutes by car. Luckily Kaz's parents had a minivan at their disposal as a hotel service, so they came to pick me up with it to drive me to the new airport. Finally I could be reunited with my love (nearly 2 hours later than planned!).

Friday was our first real day together in Cairo. I had to work with Quentin in the Cairo museum on our epigraphic assigment, but Guillaume came along with us, and I gave him a tour around the museum (very biased, because I spent much more attention to the Old Kingdom than any other period). Most of the day I spent working, and Guillaume wasn't feeling very well, because he had probably already eaten something wrong. Se he rested a lot to recover a bit. In the evening we planned to go to Amy's appartment. Everybody was invited to her superb... Thanksgiving party! Unfortunately Guillaume felt ill, so he couldn't join us. But I went anyway, hehe. Sandra had made an Egyptian style menu, here it is :

Thinsgiving menyu
(We are very sorry for entry the children. Thanks)

Quentin's spacy chicken with werid stuff
Koos' Suid Afrikaanse Bobotie
Amy's Nashed potatoes "Russian style"
Bébé Beau-nez's Southern style tea
Steffie's mascarpone pie without mascarpone
Exploding glasses

It was delicious!!! I ate so much that my tummy hurted for the rest of the evening. Bobotie is a wonderful South-African dish, which contains minced beef, eggs, milk and spices. Sounds weird but tastes incredibly good! We spent the rest of the evening waving at Amy's dad on skype, showing some Youtube videos and talking. Too bad Guillaume and Kaz weren't there (Kaz went out to eat with his parents).

Saturday we decided to go with Amy and Koos to the pyramids of Giza. It was nice to see them again. The weather was perfect : not too hot, a nice cool breeze, beautiful clouds. The salesmen hassled us, children shouted 'What's your name?', Guillaume and Koos took pictures with big cameras, Amy and I translated hieroglyphs... Is there any better way to spend your morning? The sphinx stayed calm and immobile with all those people running and shouting at his feet, and I felt great to share this with my boyfriend and those 2 crazy new friends.
Then Amy and Koos went on to Dahshour, but Guillaume and I went home, and I slept the afternoon away! I was so extremely tired of everything I've done the past month. I felt as if I hadn't slept for ages. We ate at home with Quentin and went to bed early.