Hello From Cairo!

Hello Blessed Faithful!

After a harrowing two days of travel, we have arrived in Cairo! We are all pretty tired but thankful to have arrived here safely.

Just to give you some thoughts of what happened in the last few days:

1. The trip to Amsterdam wasn't too bad. The food on the airplane wasn't that great and we were all pretty tired, but all in all, it was an okay flight.

2. Amsterdam itself was quite an interesting experience. None of us speak Dutch and have never been to central Amsterdam and so we spent a lot of time getting lost. We did end up taking a one hour canal cruise tour of the city, but it was just... hm... okay. Not very exciting. The city of Amsterdam itself was pretty interesting. We spent a good 45 minutes looking for a place to eat because we didn't want to eat McDonalds having come all the way from America. After looking and looking and being unable to decide on what to eat as a group, we ended up eating at McDonalds anyway. Tastes exactly the same :P

3. Amsterdam is probably one of the only cities in the world where right next to a restaurant, there are sex stores with all their wares in full display. Right across from the McDonalds we were eating at, there was a store with huge posters of women in their birthday suits. As the Turkey team would say, it was "interesting".

4. Our flight from Amsterdam to Cairo got delayed four hours. Something about the air conditioning malfunctioning. The fact that we got delayed four hours doesn't seem that bad until we mention the fact that we were stuck in the plane THE ENTIRE TIME!!! ARGGH! j/k. It was funny though because at one point, Jenny fell asleep and woke up an hour later and asked, "have we arrived in Cairo already?" No, Jenny. We haven't even left the gate yet...

5. Cairo is hot and humid. What can I say. And it's only 8 in the morning here. Dr. Mesghina says that this is nothing. Pray for us.

Matthew Kim
Cairo, Egypt