More lazy days by the pool in 44 degrees heat

  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Lazy days by the hotel pool, working on our tan. Ahhhh blissful holiday.

The next few days in Egypt were spent soaking up the sun and just relaxing.

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TUESDAY 8 MAY, 2007
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Lazy day by the hotel pool. It was very hot today. I had to stay under the umbrella, so must've been at least 40 degrees. Later we were told that it was 44 degrees.





IMPRESSION: Throughout our stay the same music was played everywhere - Kenny G instrumetal, Shakira's Hips don't lie and some others.

My tummy was still feeling dodgy, and as it was so hot and uncomfortable I skipped lunch.

Did some shopping in Naama Bay and Fiona found the Arabic song we listened to while cruising down the Nile - Habibi Amoura ....




We went to a restaurant called Aladdin and ate some grilled fish. I had a sip of the really cheap Egyptian wine we bought.




After a couple of sips of the cheap wine I felt sick, feeling like throwing up and then everything went blurry. I remember Fiona asking if I could see her and I couldn't so started panicking. Lucky she knew what to do (due to all the fainting spells she's been having in London). She made me lie on my back with my legs up in the air to get the blood back to my head. It must've been a funny sight as I had on my big green striped dress. The restaurant manager was so nice and bought me a big block of ice and kept checking I was okay.

In the adjoining Shisha area, they had a male belly dancer. He was actually very good. Then all the waiters and their friends started doing a whole synchronised dance. Lots of fun.





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WEDNESDAY 9 MAY, 2007
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Another lazy day by the pool. We met two English girls on holidays - Angela and Jenni and another English guy Wez, on holidays with his family.




IMPRESSION: The cleaning guy left a love heart made out of towels and fresh flowers on each of our beds. How sweet! On the last day he left a nice bowl of fresh flowers too.



We all decided to go out to dinner in Naama Bay. We met up at 7:30pm in the pool room (billiards that is) and then piled into the taxi. Wez sat in front and he is such a outgoing guy. He was chatting away with the driver, pretending to steer the wheel and clapping along to the music.




We went the Hard Rock cafe. It was lots of fun. It was a little fat boy's birthday, and they bought out a cake, sang happy birthday and then smeared cake all over his face. All the waiters and waitresses then did a little synchronise dance and they lifted the birthday boy in the air. So funny.




Later on they pulled up Fiona, Angela and I up to dance in a big group.




After a bit of last minute souvenir shopping we all went to the The Tavern Bar - a pub with karaoke.




They were playing a footy game so we all waited at the KFC with some water. At least it was cool there. There was a sign outside that said it was 31 degrees - and this was at 2am!

We went back to The Tavern Bar and did some karaoke. Well Fiona and Wez did. They got up and sang Grease and Fiona did a bit of Shania Twain. I normally love karaoke but that is in a karaoke bar. But this was in a pub. I did put down a Bon Jovi song, but the bastards didn't play it.




After awhile though it was time to go home. And after walking around and around we finally found Wez and Jenni (who went for a walk) and we caught a cab back to the hotel at 2:30am.

FUNNY STORY: I was busting to go to the toilet. So I went into the bar toilets. It was filthy! So I quickly squatted and went to wash my hands. There were two guys sitting on the basin talking. Then I saw the urinals. Oops. Wrong toilets. HAHA. But it was too late wasn't it? So I continued to wash my hands. One of the guys looked at me and shrugged to say "What the?". I just shrugged my shoulders back and walked out. How funny.

It was a great night and very good to meet up with some fun people after all the couples and non-English speaking tourists.

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THURSDAY 10 MAY, 2007
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OUr last day! We spent the morning by the pool, soaking up the last of the sunshine. Hung out with the guys by the pool.

It seemed most people were there on similar packages like ours as alot of people were leaving today.

Suddenly at 12pm people started getting their suitcases out of their rooms. And Fiona and I realised that we had to check-out of our rooms at 12pm. I ran to the reception to confirm and it was true!! There was no reminder at all. We went into our room and the cleaning guy was in their making up our beds - even he didn't know we had to check out.

So we quickly packed all our stuff. Luckily Angela and Jenni offered us their room to leave our luggage in. So we checked out and then went back to the pool.

At 4pm we said our goodbyes and then caught a cab to the airport. We were quite early so checking in was surprisingly quick. So we had time to eat some pizza and spend the rest of our Egyptian dollars. I actually bought the only souvenirs for people at the airport - fridge magnets filled with desert sand. haha. Expensive though at 250 Egyptian pounds each (That's 2.50 English pounds each!!).



In the airport lounge we bumped into Nicki and Kath and swapped stories. Our plane was scheduled to leave at 7:10pm, and we were still waiting to board at 6:55pm. Ahh the relaxed attitudes of the Egyptians.





Another 5 hour flight home and then back to the cold dreary and WET London weather. grrrrr. Back into bed by 1am. Work the next day. Too bad I couldn't wear a mini skirt to show off my tanned legs.

What an amazing 8 days. So much fun and lots of memories. Still can't believe I saw the pyramids and the sphinx. Ticked off my wish list. Egypt is definitely one of my favourite places.