First night in Cairo (made it through immigration)

This is our view tonight (We are 7 or 8 hours ahead of US - haven't figured that out yet.) We are at the Nile Ritz Carlton after a 16 hour perfectly long plane ride. Air France so far, is the best international carrier we've taken. Hats off to the French for something. Dinner lasted an hour, 4 courses with wine for 3 of them. The Cairo airport is truly a cacophony of languages, costume, noise, music, and confusing signage. Our tour operator met us right at the gate rather than after immigration and baggage claim, mainly to let us know how to get to immigration and baggage. We did do the brave thing. I guess with all we've been through,it won't surprise you. When going through immigration we walked up to the officer's station AS A COUPLE as we do here in the states and the EU. Didn't blink. Filled out the forms as travelling together with same last name and all. Guy never looked up from the paperwork! OK OK it's a little thing, but still, the times they are a changin' Tomorrow a big day, Sphinx and pyramids. We'll probably be up again in a few hours with jet lag. It's Friday night in Cairo and the streets are packed with merry makers and a zillion people on the streets. More tomorrow with pics Nate and Raphie