London to Cairo

Tuesday, March 10 was essentially a travel day. Late yesterday we got most things packed up and ready to go. We had to be at the airport at 11 AM so there was not chance to go to St. Paul's as we would have liked. We got up early this morning so we could finish packing and get directions to go the the airport. We we already to go by 8 AM essentially so I sat down to put some updates on this document and Bonnie snapped a few pics of me doing that and some pictures of the garden across from the hotel. This task (updating the blog) takes much longer than I thought it would. Uploading pictures takes longer than I thought it would, everything takes longer than I thought it would.

At about 9:30 we left for Victoria Station and purchased a tube ticket to Paddington Station. Turns out it would have probably been cheaper and easier to take the bus to Paddington but that's ancient history now. We negotiated the tube just fine and then boarded a train for Heathrow at about 10:20 AM. Already had the return ticket on the train so went that way instead of another. The train ride was smooth and uneventful. Got checked in at the Egypt Air counter and proceeded to look through duty free stuff. We didn't find anything we couldn't live without. We moseyed along in the terminal, got something to eat, and read for sometime before the gate was posted for our flight. Went to the gate and boarded shortly thereafter. The service on Egypt Air was wonderful but the movie was boring. Dosed, read, listened to music and arrived in Cairo at about 8:25 PM. Egyptian Customs was not difficult and we pickup our bags without waiting long for them. As we walked out of baggage claim Nardeen and her family as well as Aya and her mom were waiting for us. We had a short very nice reunion and then went to the car for the trip to Port Fouad. The trip was about 2.5 hrs and 200 KM. We stopped for Egyptian fast food (KFC) on the way. We were really tired when we arrived but still talked for a while before we all crashed (about 3 AM).