I kill my wife and marry you!

Here I am, blogging from London! We’ve been away for two weeks now, and have visited Dubai, all over Egypt, and London. It’s been an experience so far! I’ll try and get as much as I can remember down, we’ve done so much that It’s quite tricky to recall it all.

Dubai
We arrived in Dubai at 5am in the morning, and the place was busy already. There were seemingly endless cars on the road, and driving safely seemed to be a feat in its own. The first thing I noticed is how clean Dubai is – the place is spotless. You very rarely see trash on the ground, which is surprising, because even Sydney wasn’t this clean.

The first day in Dubai, we visited the Mall of the Emirates, which is bloody huge. You could get lost so easily in there! The mall near where I live in Sydney is big… I swear that this mall is about 10 times bigger than the one back home. We also visited some souks (markets), where dad got a replacement wedding ring, because he snapped his the weekend before playing cricket. That night we did a river cruise dinner. It took us an hour and a half to drive 20 minutes down the road because of a major accident. It was absolutely ridiculous. The food wasn’t that flash either. Plus, they charged dad about $60AU for a shitty Australian wine you could get back home for about $10. haha.

The next day, we had breakfast at a ski lodge in Ski Dubai, a ski centre in the Mall of the Emirates. It was bizarre, sitting in a ski lodge, in Dubai, were the temperature was in its 30s each day. We visited some more markets and explored a bit. That evening we did a “Safari” where you go 4 wheel driving on the sand dunes, watch the sun set, and then have an Arabian-Style evening, where you sit on cushions to eat, watch a belly dance, smoke out of a massive bong with this flavoured stuff in it (it’s not addictive or a drug, I really don’t know what to call it) and get a Henna tattoo. I had my left hand tattooed – Unfortunately, I didn’t get a photo before it faded, simply because I didn’t have a lens capable of taking a photo from so close (Lames.) It was a really awesome experience though, driving through the sand dunes. Our driver was pretty erratic, and possibly mildly insane, but it was really fun. I also snowboarded down a sand dune – I’ve never skied or snowboarded, so I was amused that my first experience was on sand. On our way to the dinner, we got a flat tyre. It was pretty crazy to watch them change this tyre on the sand. In the dark. Haha. We kept joking that we were going to have to spend the night in the desert.

Egypt
We flew to Cairo, Egypt next. Lets just say that if you drive on the roads in Cairo, you have a death wish, and if you try and cross a road, you’re suicidal. The roads were absolutely insane! On our first day, we visited various monuments, including the huge statue of Ramses II, the step pyramid, and the Giza plateau. It was pretty incredible. The Pyramids were absolutely amazing, I was completely awestruck by them. The Sphinx was pretty cool too. We rode a camel around the Giza plateau. I literally screamed the entire way, because if the camel in front of us wasnt trying to poop on my feet, the camel that my brother and I were on was trying to overtake it, and kept crushing my bad foot between two fat camels. Eugh.

Our second day in Cairo involved visiting the Cairo museum, the markets, and the mosque. I got several marriage proposals in the markets, including a “Oh miss, you dropped something … My heart!” and “I will kill my wife and marry you.” Dad offered 3 camels to some guy for me. I didn’t realise I was worth so much ;)

We flew to Luxor the next day, and boarded a Nile cruise, which ended in Aswan. The cruise was pretty ordinary to be honest. The food was shocking, and there wasn’t much to do. We did stop pretty regularly. I swear i’ve seen a million ancient temples now. By the last day we were so sick of temples. Through the cruise we saw some places like the Valley of the Kings and Queens and Neferteri’s temple. After the cruise we flew to Abu Simbel to see Ramses II’s monuments there, they were pretty extraordinary. That said, I never want to see another temple again. Hahah

We spent another two nights in Cairo at the end of the trip. I managed to get a bad case of Gastro from our night in Aswan, which was pretty disgusting. I’m still getting over it really.

As mentioned, We’re in London now. We’ve been here two nights so far. I think I’ll have to blog about this some other day, because I’m being hassled to go get dressed. Haha.

I miss everyone a lot, especially James, Trish, Rosey and the bitches over at SexMB. I hope everyone is well! *hugs!*