Day 9 and 10

Alexandria was about a 3 hour drive away from Cairo- not too bad compared to the much longer amounts of transportation we had been experiencing. Our tour guide was awesome too- he was about our age and had just graduated with his degree in Tourism... yes in Egypt that is actually a 4 year degree. He told us that we could ask him any questions we wanted to so for abut 3 hours I asked him every question I could think o about Egypt and the religion and anything else that came to mind. I learned SO much on that road trip :) Alexandria was really really pretty omgoodness. The first thing that we did was go look around in some underground catacombs where they used to bury christians. It was really interesting because the carvings on the wall were a mix between the roman gods and the egyptian ones :) I loved it. Then we went to the citadel which is like a castle that they used to protect Alexandria from threats on the Mediterannean sea. It was so beautiful- but it really hurt to climb all of the steps because our legs were still recovering from the mountain. After that we went to the Library of Alexandria- there used to be one that was a 7 wonder of the ancient world but then it burned down. It used to hold a buncof papyrus scrolls that held all the recipies for the embalming fluid that they used to preserve mummys and everything- sadly all of that information is gone now. But they decided to build a new library which is MASSIVE and amazing. The website is http://www.bibalex.gov.eg/ you should really go visit it there is a ton of useful information and sweet things to check out. After the library we went to Starbucks and I got a vanilla bean frappachino OMG to die for. So I felt like a total princess because I found the two newest versions of cosmo from a street vendor (even though they are the British versions lol) and read those while drinking a cosmo and watching the sunset over the Mediteranean- I could def get used to this life!!!! After that the driver took us back to Cairo and we walked around town and shopped for a few souveniers before falling asleep. We woke up early and the girls went shoe shopping before getting driven to the airport to fly back to Ghana. In all I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to go to Egypt to experience everything. Its still breathtaking when I think about it and I cant wait for my next adventure!!! :)