Le tour de Beach

I had quite the beachy weekend!
After my ear infection prevented me from going to the ultra-cool desert camping trip, my roomie and her boyfriend invited me to take a weekend trip to Dahab with them instead. Don’t I have a great roommate!? So we packed up for a couple days and left promptly at 4am to begin our unnecessarily long journey to Dahab in the Sinai Peninsula. Of course I passed our in the back seat only to awake 3 hrs later to the gorgeous view of the Red Sea Mountain chain that runs all through Sinai.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it before! After a quick stop in Sharm-el-Sheikh to get my shot in my ass, we arrived to Dahab. The beach was not your typical beach beach. It was more rocky than sandy and it kind of went into a 2 foot drop off into the Red Sea. We stayed in a German hotel on the small bay and it was quite possibly the most relaxing weekend of my life. Thank goodness we had Amr there to bargain for our delicious seafood dinner that night, he seemed to make friends with every vendor on the street…friendly Egyptians! I just have to share this piece of alarming information I received from our Egyptian version of a ‘cabana boy’ the next day at the beach: Beduoins use camel boo-boo to make hash. Not implying that I take part in these activities but I just found it disgustingly interesting.
Our adventure back was just that, an adventure. We left Dahab at 8pm only to be greeted by a flat tire around 12am in the middle of the Sinai Desert FML. That only held us up for about 2ish hours, during which Anna & I were subjected to nasty policemen. After another hour, we were about 3 inches from a terrible accident and yet another flat. Praise God we were fine and we reached good ol Nasr City at around 4:30 am. Good trip tho!
THEEEEEN a friend of mine who is actually from Atlanta too (we didn’t kno eachother at home) called me up on Sunday to ask if I wanted to go to the beach for a day…for free. Of course I said YES so we were off to Ain Shokna on Monday morning. Leave it up to Egyptian timing to cause us to arrive at the beach at 4pm, really. It would’ve been a great day at the beach if we had gotten there like 4 hours earlier! But it was still a great day and made some new friends. This beach was even more beautiful than Dahab, the water was turquoisey-blue with sandbars and starfish! I’m sure I’ll be back soon enough.
Now I’m just trying to get ready for MENAXLDS 2009!!! And I couldn’t be more excited to attend this conference and see everyone! GT will be well represented!