David gets robbed! :(

April 20^th

Today started out as a very typical boring day. We had breakfast, went walking around a bit outside. And then came back to the hotel. I was pretty much done with outside. The air is smoggy the place is extremely dirty and there are too many people out and about. I lay on the bed to take a nap and David decided he wanted to go take some pictures out on the street. So he left with his camera and I rested for a bit, then caught up on blogging, which is what I am doing right now.

When David finally got back to the room he said he had been robbed. He was scammed by these people. Here is the story...

David was walking along and found himself talking to this guy who was interested in Australia. So he says, hey let’s go sit somewhere and talk. So they go to some cafe and talk for a while and then these other guys come and take away the guy David is talking to. They tell David this guy is wanted for money counterfeiting, they are undercover police and they need to test all of his money to make sure it is all legitimate. So they take his money and tell him if it is legitimate they will bring it back to our hotel room. David gave him all of the money we had and then came back to the hotel. I was just glad that he wasn’t hurt. They got about $500 all together. But they didn’t take his wallet or his camera or anything else of important. It shook David up pretty good. He is pretty sad and downhearted. We were really only here as a stopover because we need new tickets to get us to Cairo. (long story short. We lost the tickets we need them to reissue them so we can fly, they don’t have any flights until Monday or Tuesday. Something about having to verify our tickets with Sydney, only Australia is closed until Tuesday Africa time anyway so we have to wait here.

A guard from the hotel walks us to the police station so we can file a report. Then we come back and they switch our room so that the bad guys can’t find us. We order some rice and veggies and watch some space alien attack movie and then David goes downstairs to get onto the computer. After a while I had to go down to check on him...I don’t feel very safe leaving him alone now, not after what happened today. He downloads some updates we need for the computer and then we come up for some sleep.