"I went to the pyramids and left my torso at home." -Ben

So Ben decided to were a sand colored shirt today, and from far away he just blended in with the landscape. We laughed really hard at one picture because it looked like he just had a head and arms. As with all things in Egypt, today was an adventure. I don't know why I thought visiting the pyramids would be any different. I suppose I thought that tourists visit them all the time, today will be as if I just got to Egypt. WRONG!

When our taxi got close to the pyramids, a guy stopped us in traffic on the road. He "explained" to us that one of the gates to the pyramids was closed, but he knew how to get us in. It was easy to tell that he just wanted to serve as our guide to make a few bucks. We told our drive to move on and ignore the man, but he tried to open our doors for us to get out. As our taxi finally escaped, the man hopped on the back of our car! It was ridiculous! Our cab driver tried going fast, hitting speed bumps, and swerving, but the man was persistent and obviously very talented.

When we were almost to the pyramids, the traffic was barely moving, and the guy on our car started directing the cab driver. Instead of taking us to the pyramids, it led us to this mans tour place. CRAZY! However, the Americans were crazier...LOL! After some bargaining and some poor decisions on our part, we decided to partake in this tour on camel and horse. I know, don't get caught up in the stupidity of the decision, it turned out just fine. The best part was, the man told us to wait inside, he was going to show us a map...Some map!

At this point we are highly concerned, but we are in too deep now. We finally get on our animals. Two on horse, two on camel. My horse was named Strawberry, and the other horse was Michael Jackson, but wait, it gets better. One camel was Moses, the other was....MICHAEL JACKSON! When we realized this, Bethany laugh so hard I thought she was going to fall off the camel.

When we finally made it to the pyramids, after taking a very back route, our guide instructs us to get off and follow him. He started climbing one of the small pyramids! OMG! I'm pretty sure that is not ok, but we climbed anyway. I was at the top of a pyramid. I don't know how many people can say they did that, but I can. I guess after all our trouble, it was worth the adventure.

I did ride a camel. Just in time, because they took the horses out for a run. Bethany and Ben say it was one of the scariest moments of their lives. We all made it back alive luckily.

The pyramids were as spectacular as I imagined. I do not see how any human could produce such massive constructions out of granite boulders significantly larger than me. The Sphinx is cool too, but it's size gets downplayed because of the immensity of the structures surrounding it. Make sure you check out my pics by clicking the title of this blog. To really appreciate the size make sure you really look at the one with the caption about me being the dot. That really is me, you just can't tell.

I'm exhausted and have class tomorrow, so I'm going to catch some zzz. Have happy Sundays!