Our first full day in Cairo, we relaxed and visited the hotel's gym (pretty nice!). Then in the afternoon, we joined some of Sweetie's friends who live in Cairo for a sunset felucca (sailboat) ride on the Nile. They had brought champagne and gluhwein and it was absolutely lovely!
Then, we joined them for dinner at their apartment. They're diplomats, so I expected a certain standard of quality. Well, the lobby of their apartment building looked very seedy. Sweetie immediately veered toward the stairs, while I braved the elevator with the daughter of Sweetie's friend. I noticed she pressed both floors 6 and 7. Hmmm....Weird. Then she said, "The elevator doesn't stop on 6 while it's going up, so you have to go up to 7 and then come back down." Then, she so kindly added, "In Egypt, they don't fix the elevators until they completely break down." THANKS FOR SHARING. So, needless to say, when it stopped at 7, I jumped off and took the stairs down to 6.
Anyway, after that brush with disaster, we had a really lovely dinner and enjoyed some homecooking!
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