These are 3 of our girls. Some of you in the family may recognize a couple of them. ;)
Horse and carriage, waiting for the tourists to arrive.
This is a faculty son. He was really good with his "Indiana Jones" whip.
What can I say -- it's the pyramids!!!!
This is Khafre's pyramid. It still has a bit of the outer layer at the verrrrrrry top. I'm looking straight up. We went inside this one.
This is the temple of Khafre. There was a pathway that connected the temple with the pyramid in ancient times.
This is also a familiar sight -- at any site. Shop keepers and souveneirs. Some of them are really pushy and annoying! Our poor students. This was their first exposure to Egyptian sellers and they were not ready. We had to rescue more than one.
This became the dance of the Judd bus -- the Wakka Wakka.
Khufu's pyramid.
Our security guy on the bus, loved taking these kind of photos and insisted on Kent posing each time.
Frank Judd, one of our professors, and 2 of his daughters.
This was MY picture of Kent posing for the security guy's picture.
THIS is what it was supposed to look like:
Kent took this one.
The sphinx without all the cornyness.
After the pyramids and the Sphinx, our guides took us back into Cairo, to a Papyrus factory. These are some of the scenes we saw along the way:
The papyrus factory was fun, sort of. It's a big store with a couple of areas where they take the group, first, and show them how the papyrus is made. Then the next 40 minutes is the students BUYING papyrus. What can I say, the guides get a cut!
Our next stop was lunch. This woman was making pita in the courtyard of the restaurant. It tastes as good as it looks.
It didn't take long for the head waiter to find out who had the tip money. Those sitting at our table got a "complimentary" plate of french fries, extra drinks, and the waiters even did a magic trick for the girls at the table. It was funny.
This is one of our doctors. John Jackson. He's enjoying the grounds after lunch before getting back on the bus.
Kerry and Julianne Muhlestein (he's one of our professors.) They are really cool!
Back on the buses and on our way to Saqqara.
This is the Djozer pyramid. He was the pharaoh in the Third Dynasty. This is a a step-pyramid, built by Imhotep. He added five increasingly smaller mastabas on top of a really large one to make the underground tomb of Djozer. The architects of the pyramids at Giza took this basic design and enlarged the base and the upper layers and then covered it with flat surfaces.
The pyramid above and the temple beneath were part of a huge funerary mortuary built for Djozer in Saqqara.
Woops: this next picture is actually a wall inside the tomb of Ti, which is shown AFTER this picture.
Entrance to the Tomb of Ti. I have no idea who Ti was. I just remember sweating alot in here.
These guys are waiting around, hoping to get some baksheesh for "allowing" us to enter, or giving us a private tour or something.
This is Kent going down into the tomb itself. Bye!!
These are the students who went with him.
Next stop: Memphis. And this is the sphinx of Memphis. Remember this statue, girls??
Us at Memphis. Memphis was teh capital of Old Kingdom Egypt. Ramses II reigned from here.
After Memphis, our drivers took us to the Cairo airport, where we boarded 2 planes, 15 minutes apart and flew to Luxor. Kent has a thing about mosques. This is the one in the airport.
You wouldn't particularly notice it if you weren't looking for it. It just looks like another sign over a door in an airport.
We were driven directly from the airport to our hotel outside of Luxor. It was a Sheraton -- so you can guess how the accomodations were. We had a great dinner and then to bed.
This is a faculty son. He was really good with his "Indiana Jones" whip.
What can I say -- it's the pyramids!!!!
This is Khafre's pyramid. It still has a bit of the outer layer at the verrrrrrry top. I'm looking straight up. We went inside this one.
This is the temple of Khafre. There was a pathway that connected the temple with the pyramid in ancient times.
This is also a familiar sight -- at any site. Shop keepers and souveneirs. Some of them are really pushy and annoying! Our poor students. This was their first exposure to Egyptian sellers and they were not ready. We had to rescue more than one.
This became the dance of the Judd bus -- the Wakka Wakka.
Khufu's pyramid.
Our security guy on the bus, loved taking these kind of photos and insisted on Kent posing each time.
Frank Judd, one of our professors, and 2 of his daughters.
This was MY picture of Kent posing for the security guy's picture.
THIS is what it was supposed to look like:
Kent took this one.
The sphinx without all the cornyness.
After the pyramids and the Sphinx, our guides took us back into Cairo, to a Papyrus factory. These are some of the scenes we saw along the way:
The papyrus factory was fun, sort of. It's a big store with a couple of areas where they take the group, first, and show them how the papyrus is made. Then the next 40 minutes is the students BUYING papyrus. What can I say, the guides get a cut!
Our next stop was lunch. This woman was making pita in the courtyard of the restaurant. It tastes as good as it looks.
It didn't take long for the head waiter to find out who had the tip money. Those sitting at our table got a "complimentary" plate of french fries, extra drinks, and the waiters even did a magic trick for the girls at the table. It was funny.
This is one of our doctors. John Jackson. He's enjoying the grounds after lunch before getting back on the bus.
Kerry and Julianne Muhlestein (he's one of our professors.) They are really cool!
Back on the buses and on our way to Saqqara.
This is the Djozer pyramid. He was the pharaoh in the Third Dynasty. This is a a step-pyramid, built by Imhotep. He added five increasingly smaller mastabas on top of a really large one to make the underground tomb of Djozer. The architects of the pyramids at Giza took this basic design and enlarged the base and the upper layers and then covered it with flat surfaces.
The pyramid above and the temple beneath were part of a huge funerary mortuary built for Djozer in Saqqara.
Woops: this next picture is actually a wall inside the tomb of Ti, which is shown AFTER this picture.
Entrance to the Tomb of Ti. I have no idea who Ti was. I just remember sweating alot in here.
These guys are waiting around, hoping to get some baksheesh for "allowing" us to enter, or giving us a private tour or something.
This is Kent going down into the tomb itself. Bye!!
These are the students who went with him.
Next stop: Memphis. And this is the sphinx of Memphis. Remember this statue, girls??
Us at Memphis. Memphis was teh capital of Old Kingdom Egypt. Ramses II reigned from here.
After Memphis, our drivers took us to the Cairo airport, where we boarded 2 planes, 15 minutes apart and flew to Luxor. Kent has a thing about mosques. This is the one in the airport.
You wouldn't particularly notice it if you weren't looking for it. It just looks like another sign over a door in an airport.
We were driven directly from the airport to our hotel outside of Luxor. It was a Sheraton -- so you can guess how the accomodations were. We had a great dinner and then to bed.
