Adventure is out there!

Jan 17-19

For lunch on the 17^th we went to the roof, where I’ve discovered the best Lebanese Kofta there is! In Egypt, anyway. This is basically a pizza of Egyptian meatballs inside flat bread and covered in spices. That’s a horrible description, but if you ever go to Luxor, you should try it! One of Egypt’s specialties is pigeon, so we also ordered one. Note: pigeon has absolutely no meat. It’s basically rice stuffed into the frame of the bird. All you can really eat is the rice and the skin but the thought of eating a bird that eats garbage and horse crap all day is really not appetizing. I’d go for the cuy over that any day.

Stuffed pigeon

Tuesday after work we went to the Ramesseum. Once again there was absolutely nobody there so we got to climb the pylon! The statue here is apparently bigger than the Colossi of Memnon which is quite a feat. Most interestingly is the fallen statue of Ramesses II. According to some sources, this is the statue which inspired Percy B. Shelley's poem Ozymandias though others think it's one in the British museum. I'd like to think it's the one i saw, so I got to meet him up close and personal. =)

Yay for climbing pylons!

Adventure is out there- the phrase of the trip

Sitting on the pylon with the temple in the background

Me and Ozy

Apparently very excited about these columns

Wednesday, bone specialist Roxy came to the site. As she dug away, I was immediately drawn to her job. As I picked her brain, I found out that she gets to dig up bones in both Peru and Egypt. Ok… now how frickin cool is that. That’s basically the coolest job I’ve ever heard of and considering those are the two places I love most it makes me feel like there are opportunities out there that will allow me, should I want it enough and work hard enough for it, to have the best of whatever worlds I want. The only problem is figuring out how to get there.

Sunset over the West Bank