Pictures of 04.24.00 -- Cruising the

The next day we woke up still waiting for the locks and with these salespeople by our boat ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240001 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240002 As I'm sure you know, this last picture is of Akaman Akd el Naky
who works at
A Mape Mepoaplk of Egypt
Azbut el Hazan St. 15
Kana Esna, EGYPT. When you talk to him, identify yourself as a friend of Ali Baba. You'll get a good price.
We also took a few more pictures of the crew with our family ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240022 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240050 and of ourselves in various incarnations including Suzanne reading ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240047 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240057 Jane doing Blair Witch imitations in self portraits ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240060 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240061 David staring, then sneezing, then recovering ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240044 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240045 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240058 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240059 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240065 Sarah hanging out ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240048 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240066 Benjamin hanging out ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240056 and Benjamin and Jane eating and posing for sunset pictures ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240043 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240040 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240067
We had been here already for 24 hours looking at the entrance to the locks ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240023 when a boat came out ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240024 and we got ready to go in ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240025 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240026 so that we could stop looking at our shadows ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240027 We went in and looked back at the boats we had waited with ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240028 and looked forward to the area we'd cross ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240029 This boat came with us ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240030 getting closer ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240031 and closer ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240032 Then they raised the water level ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240033 and on we went ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240034
As is always the case, the scene you see to the left ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240053 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240054 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240055 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240070 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240075 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240077 and to the right ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240036 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240037 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240052 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240063 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240073 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240076 and behind the boat ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240072 is so good that you have to take that extra picture. Unfortunately, no camera can capture the whole ambiance of the ride, the scenery, the sense of total relaxation, ... The best we can do is to present many many views of the sunset in progress ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240035 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240038 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240039 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240041 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240046 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240062 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240064 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240068 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240069 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240071 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240074 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240078 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240079 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240080 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240081 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240082 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240083 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240084 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240085 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240086 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240087 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240088 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240089 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240090 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240091 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240092 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.22-26.00CruisingTheNile//P4240093