Pharoah, Pharoah

We spent the morning in the Egyptian Museum. Three stories filled with thousands of artifacts from ancient Egypt. It is amazing to see things thousands of years old. The museum also houses mummies. Real deal mummies. It's so insane to see thousand year old dead bodies still intact-skin, eye lashes, hair, teeth. We saw the body of Ramses II, who was the pharaoh during the time of Moses.

Hannah took us to a local 'restaurant,' it was more like a outdoor/indoor kitchen with plastic chairs and tables outside. One of the common local dishes is called 'fuul' (pronounced 'fool'). It's a bean that is soak, boiled, and cooked with spices. Fuul is also a common dish in Sudan. Traditionally, fuul is eaten with bread (kinda like pita). It was flippin delicious! While I was eating, I was thinking about Jon and how he would have loved it. Ethnic food, eating outside, ect. He loves that kinda stuff. Hannah invited a friend of hers from language school who is originally from South Korea. She said her English was not that good because her and Hannah always speak to each other in Arabic. Hannah's Arabic is great by the way. Not that I would really know, but everyone she talks to seems to know what she is saying. Her roommates say the same and a taxi driver told us today that her Arabic is 'kwees' (good).