August 28

Syd and I woke up "early" (8:30am) to eat breakfast downstairs, but their were no beans, so we had plain eggs. Then we went back to sleep until noon. Then we took advantage of having a free washing machine in our dorm building and the fact that our clothes dry faster hung in Cairo's dry heat than in our dryers at home.
After doing laundry, we went into town to have one last Cairene juice, use the internet, and an ATM. We then took a taxi back to the Khan market to try to see the Whirling Dervish dancers ("Sufi" dancing), but they weren't on tonight, so we fought through the crowd to take another taxi to the Cairo Sheraton. We had a nice Lebanese "mezze" including a little Lebanese band and a bellydancer. This didn't get started until about 10 pm, so around midnight we made it back to our room to pack up and meet the taxi at 2 am to head to the airport.