Mummies, Pyramids and Camels. Oh My!

So I arrived in Cairo and was really happy that I had arranged for the hostel to come pick me up!! There was a man waiting for me at the airport and he took me straight to the hostel. He pointed out some important landmarks along the way as we jammed out to some Bob Marley!! I had booked the Canadian Hostel and it ended up being pretty nice for how much I spent to stay there. I didn't end up doing much the first night, I was pretty exhausted so I passed out early!! The next day I met an american girl who was in the peace core in Botswana. It was soo nice to meet another american to chat with!! We had a nice Egyptian breakfast and then I headed out to try to see the pyramids. The plan was to take the bus to the pyramids. I ended up getting a little overwhelmed when I ventured out into Cairo. I didn't get harassed as much as I was expecting, but it was still more than I wanted. The men in Egypt have a tendency to hiss at you as you walk by. Its very annoying. Luckily I had adopted my policy of ignoring people from Bali and was pretty successful. I ended up checking out the Nile for a bit and then heading over to the Egyptian museum. It was really amazing! I got to check out all the things from King Tut's tomb and a whole bunch of mummies! I even tried to follow around an english tour group for a while and learned a little bit about the history. I had planned on checking out the pyramids but realized that there was no way I was going to find the bus to take me there and didn't really want to brave it on my own. I settled for the museum and decided to grab the metro to Ramses station to get my train ticket to Luxor. The metro was definately an experience! Not only did it take me about half an hour to figure out where I was going on the cars, they have seperate cars for women!! I went to get on and it was literally just a mob scene. All of the women just push until they get on the metro. At one point two women started screaming at each other in Arabic, it was unbelievable! I finally got to the train station and had just as much luck trying to get a ticket to Luxor. It took forever to figure out which line to get in! After that I headed over to Coptic Cairo, which was supposed to be the christian area of the city. I got out at Coptic Cairo and headed over to St. George's church. The church ended up having a cemetary attached that was pretty cool looking. After that I checked out one of the Jewish synagouge and latched onto another English speaking tour, from Georgia. It turns out that the alter is supposedly where the basket that moses floated down the river in was placed. After that I checked out the hanging church of Mary and got back on the hectice metro to head over to get some food at pizza hut!! It made me feel pretty good to listen to Hotel California and eat some delicious pizza away from all the hassle of the city! After that I headed back to the hostel to meet up with the American girl I had met earlier, Meghan. She had talked to a couple of the guys that ran the hostel and they decided to go out for the night, of course I decided to join. In the meantime I met another american girl who was travelling alone through asia and india, Sierra. She was planning on going to the pyramids the next day and we made plans to go together. I showed my train ticket to one of the guys at the hostel to see if it really said I had a train to Luxor, and he told me it was for poor people. I flipped out and thought that they had given me some sort of food stamps instead of a train ticket, but it just turns out that I donated 2 egyptian pounds to the poor and the acutal ticket was a little piece of paper they had given me. haha We went out to the Hard Rock Cafe, which turns out to be the hot spot in Egypt. The only place where you can drink and dance and not wear headscarfs. :) Two Canadians guys ended up going us as well and we had a pretty good time dancing to Arabic music and getting stared at! The next morning Sierra and I caught the metro (a little less hectic today) to Giza and then grabbed a taxi to the pyramids. We ended up renting camels for 2 hours to explore the area from a guy named Allie!! It turns out that he had two wives and a Greek girlfriend!! He ended up being a really good guide and took us around to see all the pyramids on our sweet camels. We got tons of pictures of the pyramids and ended up chatting about a whole bunch of things. Sierra had travelled to the most interesting places by herself and I just couldn't get over it! I was pretty jealous even though I had been travelling for 2 months. I added about 100 places to my list of places I want to go! After our camel tour we went to go check out the sphinx and get a closer look of the pyramids. they are amazing!! I don't know how they managed to construct these massive things but they are really impressive! After that we decided to explore the inside of one of the pyramids. It was pretty much just a collection of really cramped tunnels. At the top was an open room with a sarcophagus. The pyramids closed at 4 so Sierra and I stole some pyramid rocks and headed to search for some food. We walked around Giza for a bit and couldn't find anything to eat so we grabbed a cab to the train station hoping to find some places. By the time we got there we had our hearts set on Hardees and went searching for one. We finally found one and scarfed down as much delicious fast food as we could handle. We headed back to the train station so I could grab the train to Luxor and Sierra could grab the metro back to Cairo.