Haggling in market

April 25th
We went out on super adventures today. I wanted to see the spices and maybe get a shirt or dress because I have been wearing the same thing for 8 months now and it would be nice to have something else to wear...It is fun to see all of the people selling their goods. They all have a story or something to say about something. Haggling is just what they do here and many times it is very dramatic. There was a guy that was selling what I thought was licorice root and he wanted 20 pounds for it, when the guy down the street had offered it for 2 pounds. We ended up leaving the store and the guy ran down the street yelling “OK OK 3 for 5...3 for 5...” It was all very heart wrenching... We were gone for so long that we had to book it back to the ship because the ship was about to leave. So we ended up running the last leg and we just make it. Sailing was fun and the dinner was excellent. Cruising down the Nile is beautiful. The landscape is lush and you can see some structures that people live in. Sometimes you can see fishing boats or people standing on the shore. There were a bunch of people on deck one night and just after they all went in we came upon some temples on the side of a cliff face during sunset. The sunset was another matter. There was so much smog in the air you could actually look at the sun directly for a long time like it was the moon.