We arrived at Cairo early on Christmas day and our first stop was the Egyptian Museum. I am sure this would be a fascinating museum for anyone, but it was especially interesting to us as 
we’d already been to a few of the tombs where many of the relics on display in the museum were excavated from. We’d seen King Tutankhamen’s tomb and mummy at the Valley of Kings and now we were able to see the 3000 artifacts that were discovered in his tomb in 1922. There are more than 120,000 relics and antiquities on display at the museum. We spent a few hours wandering around admiring them and paid a few extra bucks for admission to the “Royal Mummy Room.” Here we learned about the mummification process and saw the mummified bodies of pharaohs and rulers of ancient Egypt. NEAT!
After the museum we checked out the Citadel, which was home to Egypt’s rulers for 700 years, and Mohammed Ali’s mosque before returning to our hotel. For the 3rd night in a row we wouldn’t be getting any sleep because we had to leave for the airport at 1am so our goal was to have an early Christmas dinner then snooze for a few hours. The food in Egypt is terrible so TJ and Carrie decided our best bet would be Christmas dinner at McDonald’s.
We walked back to our hotel, took a nap then headed to the airport for our flights to Istanbul.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
we’d already been to a few of the tombs where many of the relics on display in the museum were excavated from. We’d seen King Tutankhamen’s tomb and mummy at the Valley of Kings and now we were able to see the 3000 artifacts that were discovered in his tomb in 1922. There are more than 120,000 relics and antiquities on display at the museum. We spent a few hours wandering around admiring them and paid a few extra bucks for admission to the “Royal Mummy Room.” Here we learned about the mummification process and saw the mummified bodies of pharaohs and rulers of ancient Egypt. NEAT!After the museum we checked out the Citadel, which was home to Egypt’s rulers for 700 years, and Mohammed Ali’s mosque before returning to our hotel. For the 3rd night in a row we wouldn’t be getting any sleep because we had to leave for the airport at 1am so our goal was to have an early Christmas dinner then snooze for a few hours. The food in Egypt is terrible so TJ and Carrie decided our best bet would be Christmas dinner at McDonald’s.
We walked back to our hotel, took a nap then headed to the airport for our flights to Istanbul.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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