Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Red Sea is Blue

Today was another fun, adventurous, exhausting day. I had a school trip to a hotel in Sokhna. 


I went to school as normal, except I didn't walk up two flights of stairs and I didn't wear beige, orange, or greenish-blue. Instead, I had a swimsuit in my backpack and I boarded a bus to the sea. 



In between cities in Egypt, it's desert. Leave Cairo it's all sand until you reach Sokhna or Suez or any other city.


Once we got to Sokhna though, holy crap. The view. 


This is the Red Sea. Obviously, it's not red. Bummer, I know. Also, I couldn't part it. I tried, and failed. But if I had a staff, maybe that would help. 


We got a room to put all our stuff in and changed. I was a competitive swimmer in California, and it's been about six months since I've been swimming. Needless to say, I miss it and love it as if it were a person, bacon, or my pets. 


After playing in the pool and taking pictures and looking out into the vast ombré sea of beauty, we ate. It was normal Egyptian buffet type stuff. Rice, chicken, kofta, fries, pasta, salad, soup, bread, dessert. Nothing special except everyone told me it was going to be terrible, but I thought it was pretty good. 



After that we took more pictures and played some more and had a grand old time. 

We took a long bus ride home and now I'm in bed writing this post. 

There's not much to say about what we did today, but it was really fun hanging out with my school friends outside of a school environment because I don't get to do that often. 



Contrary to popular belief, Egyptians do wear shorts, tank tops and two piece bathing suits. 


The view and the off-season peacefulness of the area was really nice. And a great way to spend the day. Especially since I had my last monthly exam yesterday. 


*This is my English teacher who gives me Arabic lessons. She's lovely and amazing*




Props to Corie for posting about something on the actual day it happened. I am winning this blogging thing. 

That's all I have for this post. Thanks for stopping by. I'll talk to you next time. 

Learn something today. 

Byeeee

Corie. 

2 comments:

  1. Some great pictures these last few posts. You sure are packing in a lot of adventure in a short amount of time. Keep having fun. Uncle Peter

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