We occasionally worship at St. Andrew’s United Church of Cairo. It was built by the Church of Scotland back in 1909, but Cairo has grown around it.
Take a look in the upper left hand corner of that photo again. That is a bus driving along the flyover while everyone is trickling out of the church [...]
We take a back street, walking from our local metro station to our flat. A quiet street that parallels the VERY busy Sharia Tahrir.
Justin and I were coming home one Friday afernoon, walking our regular walk from the metro station to our apartment. There was a man leading a donkey cart coming towards us. I’m [...]
A fellow Fulbrighter, Nicole, took in a pregnant stray cat, cleaned her up, fattended her up, and helped her have her babies. We went to visit the six little 10-week-old munchkins and playing with those Egyptian street cat kittens was a blast! Five boys and one girl.
Three napping on Justin’s lap
We had a terrible time [...]
Yesterday was my birthday! We decided to keep my actual bithDAY simple — just dinner for two at Kandahar, my favorite Indian restaurant near our apartment. Next weekend a friend from my CMRS program whose birthday is close to mine, Carl, and I will be having a joint birthday celebration at a local restaurant/bar on [...]
Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday, mine too, actually. I was born on my Dad’s birthday. More on my birthday later.
I just wanted to wish my Dad a “public” happy birthday! I seem to have mostly selected photos of my Dad in camping/UV protective/dork gear, so I promise he does dress like a normal person occasionally.
Love [...]
Today was a work day for me.
Sunday is the first day of the week in Cairo. This totally threw me off this week because we went out last night for dinner with some friends. It wasn’t until 12:30am that I realized that I needed to get up to substitute teach today.
I substitute teach at Cairo [...]
We had grabbed a taxi leaving a friend’s birthday dinner in Zamalek. Having our camera on hand I snapped some random photos and video from the back seat as we zoomed along the Nile on our way home. Justin made it into a video.
Justin and I have only been married two years. Insha’allah, in 23 years, we can go to where Justin proposed to celebrate our anniversary, like my parents just celebrated their 25th anniversary where my Dad proposed.
25 ish years ago parents took a trip to the Grand Canyon. My Dad was planning to “pop the question” [...]
So, here is the deal:
I gave up on our old blog software in favor of something simpler and more suitable for a casual blog like we are tryign to run here. Something with good-looking themes, an easy interface, and better support for inserting photos.
So here we are!
We’ll start blogging again about our adventures here in [...]