A family of five in Cairo, Egypt - The End

What would you do if you suddenly only had a little over a week left in Cairo, Egypt? Where would you go? What would you want to see?

Most people we know that left had a final photo shoot by the pyramids, and visited the Khan for a bit of departure shopping, Coptic Cairo, or other favorite sites one last time.

I wanted to take pictures by the pyramids, but we were sick, and the packers were coming, and we had to run errands, go into campus to get forms filled out, and sort through our apartment. Add the kids and everything else, we decided to just do what we felt was right. We played tennis one last time with our tennis buddies, had a couple of dinners with good friends, went on a felucca on the Nile, toasting to future success in champagne I had saved for I don’t even know any more, and had drinks at the Maadi House. The kids played with their friends until pretty much the moment we left for the airport, having given away most of their toys and a lot of clothes to local boys around the neighborhood. We were all sad to leave, but our departure as far as such go, was pleasant; it was a good farewell.

Good Bye Cairo. Good Bye AUC. Good Bye friends in Cairo. Good Bye three years of calls to prayer, Eids, Ramadan and iftar, mummies, Pharaohs, trips, sand, pyramids, tombs, coral reefs, the Nile, head scarves, Mustafa the Pianoman, Khaled, Ahmed, Muhammed, Waleed, Ali, Khan Al Khalili, Sakkara, Beyti Skimmed Milk, excited trips to the Duty Free Shop, stray cats, Balady bread, Drinkies, Miriam’s Market, taxis, Shary tissa, Souk, Soup place, Arzak, Fuul and Koshary, security guards, wild dogs, garbage in the streets, Otlob, Bowabs, the Maadi House, and everything and everyone else that made our life in Egypt special. We will miss you!

Maa'salema, ya Misr!