Wearing dirty clothes again

Well, somehow we managed to do absolutely nothing today. We slept in, had a late breakfast, then tried to change our flight out of Cairo to an earlier date. Since everything was booked out, we decided to hang out in Dahab for a while longer. We had planned to spend these last few days going to southern Jordan, but Karen and Mark had just come from there and were able to tell us how much things cost. We worked out that it would be too expensive, even though we really wanted to go. But, hanging out doing not much in Dahab wasn't a bad second choice. We had tons of laundry to do, but managed not to even do that. After time on the internet and a siesta, we met up with Karen and Mark again for 'just a few beers' which of course turned into many. It was about 1:30 a.m. by the time we were back in bed.

The people in Dahab are alot more relaxed than in the rest of Egypt. Even the restaurant touts that try to entice you in are friendly and not too pushy. They do their speil and when you say no thanks not tonight they finish with "OK no problem you guys have a nice night". The camel and horse touts are nice too, not too pushy. One of the horse touts (riding Madonna) gave up asking us, and it was understood that we weren't interested. So now we just wave and smile like old friends.