August 27

We tried to sleep as long as possible, but by 10 am we were up. We had breakfast and got ready, taking as long as possible (we are trying so hard to shift our "day" to night). Then we went to a HUGE Four Seasons Hotel to look down on the city from the roof. Everywhere we went (the pool, restaurants, spas) they thought we were guests of the hotel, so they kept giving us a tour of the facilities and telling us about them. We owned them. (just kidding) We also looked around in their uber-chic boutique in the hotel. Then we went downtown to use the internet and have a shwarma lunch. yum. We walked to go get some fresh juice before getting a taxi back to where we are staying. Around 9:30pm, Ahmed and two of his friends picked us up and we drove to Zamalek, the "going out" part of Cairo. We drove past, and headed to the "Sonic" of Cairo called "the Queen" where we had "fatta", an Egyptian rice dish. After much driving around and debate between going to ride horses at the pyramids or go see belly dancing, we nixed both and went home "early" (1 am).