Today was a relatively low key day. We woke up late (around 12:30, what?!) and sat around watching TV for awhile. I am a bit obsessed with the BBC News channel here. Sooooo good! We then went to a little cafe in Zamalek which is a part of Cairo that is on an island in the Nile. It is full of cafes, art galleries and small shops along with the typical Egyptian open store fronts and street vendors. It has an aura that I really like, this bohemia meets the 3rd world kind of thing. It is close to the university so it caters to a younger and more international crowd. From there Sarah left to go to the airport to pick up a friend of their family named Katy and Dina and I walked around and shopped.We regrouped back at the apartment to get ready to go to a beautiful restaraunt named Sequoia for Sarah's birthday. Sequoyah is in Zamalek at the tip of the island. It is all outdoors with all white couches and comfy chairs around low white tables with candles. It has a very posh feel and you are surrounded by the Nile River and all the fallukahs (sp?) and other boats that go up and down giving tours. There is a big white tent that covers the top but the rest is open. Here's a pic of us singing happy birthday to Sarah and then a pic of Sequoia that I stole from their website:
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