catch a glimpse: Looking back to Egypt...

So, Ines and I just came back from our vacation in Egypt.

I loved it! I now that doesn't say much, but it is really hard to put everything into words! :-)

But I'll try to tell you a little bit about it.

On sunday (22nd) we took a train to Berlin, where we stayed over night with a girl from the Calvary there. The next day we went over to the church to say hi to our friend Nari. Then we also met Luke (Dean) there, which was pretty cool, and he took us on a little tour through the city.

Later that day we went to the airport and checked in our bags. Since our flight didn't leave till the next morning we got to spend a more or less sleepless night at the airport.

Flying into Egypt was amazing, I even got to take pictures of some pyramids!!

Our hotel was amazing! We had a nice room and the personnel was friendly.

We spend most of the time relaxing at the pool or joining the animation program.

The weather was great. It was very hot, but there was always a nice breeze from the sea.

It felt amazing to really be the guest and enjoy the service. They did everything to make us feel good!

The hotel had it's own reef and we got to snorkel a little bit in it and I took a few under water pictures (not done yet).

The food was also great. We had a big buffet in the morning and evening with a lot of variety.

One day we went into town and got a little tour from a local, which was good. It is strange to see how much the actual life there is so different from the "perfect" life you see in the hotels. He took us to a 400 year old house and we got to go inside and see how the people live there. It was very interesting, but at the same time very humbling.

The most fun thing we did was a tour out to the dessert on monday.

We met with 12 other people and then went on a bus to the safari place that ran the tour.

We all went on quads (two ppl shared one) and then went on a 2 hour ride through the dessert. It was so much fun!!

We went to a bedouin- camp, where we went camel riding, which was a great experience!

After a short tour of the camp we had dinner together and then went to watch the sunset.

The dessert was painted in amazing colors!!! God is amazing!

Then we all sat in a big circle and watched a dance from one of the bedouin guys and all danced together. *so much fun*

We waited for the stars to come out and I have to say, that I have not seen so many stars in the sky as I did that night. It was amazing how far you were able to see and how bright the stars were. We also got to see saturn through a telescope, it looked like someone put a picture up, that's how clear it was.

Then we rode the quads back to the safari place and drove back to the hotel.

The week went by way to fast, but I am happy that we went even if it was only for a short time!

We met nice people and had some great conversations with them!

Our trip back was good. We got to spend most of the time with a couple we had met during the week and so the time went by fast.

We had another night to spend in Berlin before we took a flight to Cologne the next morning where Ines' mom picked us up and took us home.

Here are some more pictures from the week. Enjoy!