Hot hot heat (by Jess) July 11

Hot hot heat (by Jess)
July 11:  As it is so hot out we elected to stay inside the hotel room for much of today. The boys went to the bar and the girls watched Egyptian music videos - adding our own lyrics, and Arabic soap operas - adding our own dialogue, (so the wealthy man bribed his housekeeper to sleep with him but in the end she died, or was a narcoleptic. :)
We went on a Nile river cruise where we picked up Mr.  Hamdi the elder of the Nubian village, a Dickens quoting wizened little man, and he was able to tell us some stories about the history of the area and his people. After that we walked up a sand dune and had a swim in the Nile (crocodile free!)
We had arranged to have dinner with a Nubian host family. We sat on their floor and shared a meal with Australians, English and us from Canada, in a home open to the sky (it rains every 30 years or so).  Truly an exercise in multiculturalism