Bill and Melissa in Cairo بل و ميليسا في القاهرة

Bill has done a nice job in the previous post of updating you on our life the last few days. We have almost been in Cairo one week! Seems like much longer. That has to be due to the fact that every little piece of life seems vastly different from life in the U.S., and so we seem much further removed from our Kansas City existence. Of course there are the obvious differences, like the fact that we're living in Zamalek, a neighborhood on an island in the middle of the Nile River. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto! This first picture shows the view from one of the bridges connecting Zamalek to another part of Cairo. Zamalek is on the right. We often walk through here on our way to the Metro. It is most beautiful at night. Here's another view from the same bridge. I still can't over the fact that I'm looking at the Nile, the influential river I read about in my elementary history books that has sustained life along its banks in this desert land for thousands of years. If you saw the video we posted of our landing in Cairo, you viewed the stark contrast between white desert sand and fertile, green land on either side of the river, making up the Nile River Valley. It is incredible.
Tomorrow we move into our apartment that kind folks here have assisted us in obtaining, which is in a different part of the city altogether. But for the last week, I've sure enjoyed Zamalek.