London, Egypt and other bits and bobs

Another couple months have passed and find us happy and in good health (this is a lie, I'm incredibly obese). The weather in Amsterdam is starting to turn so we are in for 6 months of rain and potentially some snow. Not all that different from Portland.

Not too much happening on the home front. The Netherlands saw the brief return of Gerben for a week or so in September. Was good to see him and finally get some Biter Balijn in with the master.

Kindra and I went to London to visit her cousin Katie and had a great time. We had dinner Friday with Katie and her brother (our cousin) Mathew and his girlfriend. Saturday we drove to Bristol to see Nikky and her mother. Was good to see Nikky as we hadn't seen her since we moved. We returned to London that evening and saw Spamalot, Monty Python's Holy Grail on Broadway. A bit over the top but fun to see.

Of recent news, I just returned from Egypt where I had been for a week with David Miller. We traveled from Saturday to Saturday and we saw a lot of the country. We flew into Cairo on Saturday, spent Sunday in Giza and Cairo seeing the great pyramids and the Spynx and then took an overnight train to Aswan. From Aswan we traveled up the Nile by boat to Luxor. This took three days and we were able to stop in Esna and Edfu along the way finally arriving in Luxor on Thursday. From Luxor we took another overnight train back to Cairo arriving Friday am. David flew out that afternoon and I flew out at 6am Saturday morning.


I could write pages about the trip but that might get a bit boring. See the photos below if you are interested and the movie is in the works.

For a brief clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mZw7DFjfA

LINK TO LONDON AND EGYPT PICS

Hope this finds everyone well.