Luxor

Not sure where I left off. I'm just writing a quick little update since I am being stalked by a band of mosquitos in the hotel lobby here in Luxor. We're staying in the Morris Hotel - a beautiful structure that is just totally not being maintained. Luxor is quite amazing with the number and quality of sites. It's cool to think that the Roman Ceasers came here for sightseeing and that Homer wrote about the city of Thebes that stood here before.

Cairo had hot days, but the nights were cool and comfortable. Here in Luxor it's hot even at night, so you can imagine what the days are like, and most of the tourist sites we've been to have no trees. Luxor boasts a number of temples and one of the world's most famous necropolises - maybe Daly City is a close second :) We visited 4 sites today (I'll have to check my spelling when I get back to the guide book): two temples - Medinat Hadu and Rassmeseum, the Colossi of Memnon and the Tomb of the Noble Nacht. Lonely Planet got it perfect. We picked a few sights from their Highlights List that we're not hitting on our cruise. It was great, these ones are not visited by most tours, but were really impressive. Memnon is that african king that was killed by Achilles in the Odyssey.. Probably need to read that again.

The kids did great in the heat. Cici has even started drinking water from a water bottle/sippy cup - yeah! I couldn't believe how much water we drank and were still dehydrated. We went form 8:45 am to 2:30 pm then everyone took a power nap. Not the 15 minute kind of power nap, but like a 3 hour power nap!