We entered Egypt finally, but the first hotel had no Internet so....
We are now in Cairo and the computer here is soooooo slow I can't down load a picture. sorry.
Our trip through the Sinai was unbelievable. I always pictured the Sinai, and there for the exodus led by Moses to be over a flat desert. That's not at all what it is like. It has extremely high mountains in the interior. The coast of the Gulf of Aquba and the Suez Gulf are flat sand to the sea on one side of the road, but the other is high mountains right up to the edge of the road. That exodus was undoubtedly winding through the mountains from water hole to water hole. It would take forever to walk the peninsula or maybe just 40 years.
St. Catherine's monastery was awesome. We were not able to visit inside the chapels, but walked through the monastery where visitors could go and saw the burning bush. Is it real? Only God knows, but the bush dates back centuries and people have tried to grow parts of it elsewhere and it has not been successful.
Our hotel was right there. Last night we (Jan, Mary and I) went outside the hotel to visit a Bedouin tent. We had chai (hot spiced tea) sitting on carpets on the ground. Jan and I were dressed up as dancers by the Bedouins - much to everyone's amusement!
I looked out my window in the morning to see the sun come up over Mt. Sinai. Right there where Moses met his wife, where Moses talked with God at the burning bush, where Moses went up the ;mountain to bring back the 10 commandments, where he came down to find the golden calf. WOW!
On to Cairo today. We arrived in time for dinner and will go to the pyramids tomorrow.
Pray with me: Lord give us the strength to see the other as your child. Amen
