Dahab and Cairo

Got on the bus to dahab and met this crazy american guy who wrote for a paper in turkey (although I'm not sure I believe him). He would not stop talking to me, just rambling on about nothing!! What a poor representation of our country, at that point I understood why a lot of people didn't like americans. I got 'rescued' by an older egyptian man and a french couple. It turned out that this was a worse option. I got stuck next to the egyptian man who kept trying to kiss my hand and put his hand on my leg. I tried to laugh it off at first but he got pretty grabby and kept saying he loved me. I was on the verge of flipping out when he had to get off the bus (thank god). The rest of the ride to dahab was pretty much uneventful. We made quite a few bathroom breaks to pee in holes in the ground (and pay to do so). I finally got to dahab and ended up chatting with 2 american girls from NYC. I got a ride to my hotel with them and checked in. Walked around for a bit and checked out the coast. Got some food in a little cafe and relaxed for a bit. I got back to my room around 1pm and decided to take a nap. The nap ended up lasting until the next morning. Lol. Took a shower only to find out that they use heated up salt water. Great! Grabbed my stuff and went to the beach to relax for the day. The water was bright blue and you could honestly see saudi arabia!! Layed out, read my book and went for a quick swim. Walked around for a bit, grabbed some food and headed to the bus station. I had a ton of time to kill so I figured I'd walk. Probably not the best idea to be walking to a bus station in egypt in the dark by myself, but I ended up making it safe and sound. Caught the bus to Cairo and immediately passed out. Woke up with a guy sitting next to me. I oroginally thought he was egyptian but it turned out he was canadian, I immediately felt better. At one of the stops there ended up being a fight between the bus driver and one of the passengers. Apparently the bus driver wouldn't open the compartment with the mans stuff because he had put it in the compartment for the nwxt stop. Haha. We arived in cairo really early in the morning and I set out with the canadian, his siter and friend, abd a german guy to find the metro. After walking around forever we found it. They headed back to central cairo and I went to check out islamic cairo. I checked out the mosques in islamoc cairo and tried to go to the infamous market but it was too early to be open. I decided not to wait around and instead head back to central cairo for some pizza hut! Unfortunately pizza hut was closed until 11 so I ended up hanging out in mcdonalds, where I ran into the canadian again. Pizza hut finally opened, I grabbed some delicious food, grabbed my other bag from the hostel and headed to the airport to grab my 3:00 flight to greece. My taxi dropped me off at terminal 1 and I confirmed with the security guard that I was at the right terminal for aegean airways. I waited around for a bit and decided to ask information just to make sure. Turns out I was in the wrong terminal, typical, and terminal 2 was pretty far away. I ended up lucking out and the bus to terminal 2, which only ran every hour, would be there in 5 minutes. I took that bus and then had to take another one to the actual terminal (ridiculous). I butted like 20 people in the security line so I wouldn't miss my flight and finally checked in. An older greek man asked me if I was travelling alone, I said yes and he looked at me in disbelief. Lol. He assured me that egypt was a very dirty country and greece was nothing like this. I could only hope. Got on my flight to athens, got some delicious quiche and a brownie, and passed out.