April 21st
We wake up today and head down to breakfast. Today we are going down to the Egypt air office to see if they can get us out of here any sooner, today if possible. We are pretty much done with Nairobi. We walked to the Egypt air office and they were extra helpful. The manager was having a hard time getting our tickets re issued because of many issues, but finally he got a hold of someone from China who was able to send the copies of the tickets and verify that we actually did have tickets. The manager was very nice and he was super helpful and kind. He even gave us some Turkish coffee that was delicious! It turns out his wife does healing with essential oils and crystals and is also certified in Body Talk. The only thing we needed to do was to go to the police to file a lost ticket form and bring it back to get our tickets. We had to pay 10% of the cost, but we were just glad we didn’t have to pay the whole amount. When we went to the police station two other guys were in there and one of them actually got robbed and beat up by 6 men a few days ago. They caught the guys and they have been in jail since Friday, it made us think about how lucky David really was getting away with only giving them our money and not getting hurt.
We walked back to our hotel room to get ready for our trip to Cairo. A cab driver is going to come by the hotel at 2am and then we fly out at 5am tomorrow morning. It’s good to know we are on our way tomorrow and it was really good to meet some good people today. We went down for dinner at the hotel restaurant. Later I checked email downstairs and David did computer organizing. After finishing up this blog I went to take a shower and made sure I had everything ready for leaving at 2 am. We really have to get some early sleep if we are going to be anything but cranky. Luckily, we are staying at a place called the Australian hostel and they are going to pick us up from the airport. We have noticed it’s just the trickiest thing to find an honest cabbie, so this is an A+ for us!
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