Cairo and back home....

At 12:25 Jen, Kelley, Tara and I made our way to the lobby area for our shuttle to the airport.  Adam, Tim, Ed, Craig, Jacqui, Sharon and Alan all saw us off.  They waved until we couldn’t see them anymore, it was quite sad.  I won’t mention any names, but someone in the van tried to make the rest of us cry and was almost successful.  But we had a good chat on the way to the airport about the tour and the people.  At the airport I made my way through check-in with no problems while the other girls checked in at Lufthansa and got seats together.  The 4 of us walked around the airport a bit, shopped a little, paid our last Baksheesh for the bathroom and then at 2:45 I watched them go through security for their flight.  I had a little more time before my flight boarded and walked around a bit more till they called my flight at 3:30.  On the line for security there were a couple really annoying Canadians – the type that give Canadians a bad name.  I just hoped they weren’t sitting near me. 

I wasn’t sitting near the annoying Canadians; I had a window seat with a view of Jen, Tara, and Kelley’s plane and an empty seat on the other side of me.  I was exhausted at this point and slept at least half the flight to Milan, but managed to wake up for breakfast – Yogurt, fruit and bread with some cheese.  But 2 hours of sleep wasn’t going to cut it.

Security in Milan was much better this time, only about a 10 minute wait.  When I got on line for the flight back to NY I ended up in front of a big group, and man were they annoying!  I ended up with another entertainment box under my feet, but since I knew I was going to sleep on this flight I didn’t bother taking much stuff out of my backpack.  Lunch was pretty good, but the snack was weird.  My flight got in on time, although my luggage took forever to come out.  There was a customs guy with a dog, I was just hoping my bottle of Sahara sand didn’t smell.  But I was fine.  Mom and Dad took me out to lunch and then it was time to try and readjust to real life, which I knew wasn’t going to be easy to do – Egypt is the type of place that stays with you.