This is Ceej and I in an essence store in Cairo, where you could buy the floral essences that they use to make perfumes and colognes. We wound up buying three 'perfumes' and one 'cologne,' and my mom had to flee the place due to her sinuses packing up.

One of my complaints about the tour was that a lot of our time in Cairo was spent shopping, or being taken around to look at things to buy. That day, we went to the Museum, then to a jewelers shop to look at cartouche necklaces, then to the pyramids, then to this essence factory, then back to the jewelers to pick up our necklaces, then to eat 'lunch' at an Arabic restaurant (at around 4 pm), then to a papyrus factory, and then, finally, back to our hotels.

Me, I'm wondering why we couldn't have spent that time at the museum and the pyramids, or been taken to see some of the other wonders that Cairo has to offer. Of course, I never say no to food, so the restaurant was more than welcome. (It had a salad buffet, and street cats walking in and out like the owned the place: great on both counts)

But couldn't we have just confined the shopping part of the excursion to the trip to the jewelers?

Rant rant rant complain bitch moan. We got some nice papyri for our walls.