The Juhnkes

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Hieroglyphics

I liked looking at the hieroglyphics. Our guide taught us how to read some of them. Many of the indoor symbols were still colored with the original paint from 4500 years ago!

Tom & Christopher at the Edfu Temple

It amazed me how big the temples were. Most took hundreds of years to complete. More can be learned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edfu

Sunday, November 26, 2006

We always find the kitties

Here at the Aswan Botanical Gardens we saw several stray cats. We were feeding this one goldfish crackers. At one point we had 2 kitties following us around the Gardens

Group Photo at the Aswan Train Station

We spent 4 days with Ahmeed, he's on the left beside Christopher. We had a good time with him. He was amazed at all of the questions that Tom asked. He's 34 and that is considered to be "getting too old to be married", he told us his mother is worried now that he'll never get married. This was taken before we got on the train to head back to Cairo, it was a 12 hour ride so we got 2 sleeper cabins.

Camel Ride in the Southern Desert of Egypt

Christopher enjoyed his first camel ride near the pyramids so much that he had to have another one. Tom was lucky enough to get to go with him.

Home in the Nubian village

We toured this home in the a relocated Nubian village. Nubians are dark-skinned people who live in Southern Egypt. Many of them were displaced after the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

Saqqara Pyramid

This is the first pyramid ever built. Imotep from the hit movie The Mummy designed it in real life. It was south of Cairo adjacent to the ancient city of Memphis.

Gayer-Anderson museum

We visited the Gayer-Anderson house in old Cairo. The James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me was flimed here. See link for morehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayer-Anderson_Museum

Minaret and Mosque

After climbing up the minaret of this mosque, we had a view of the courtyard with Cairo in the background.

Pool time

As beautiful as it was, we didn't spend much time at the hotel pool in Cairo as the water was freezing! It was even too cold for Christopher.

Monday, November 06, 2006

HMS Belfast

We spent a day in London exploring the HMS Belfast. It was a WWII battleship. Christopher had a great time.

Tom & Christopher at the Tower Bridge

Thought this was a great picture with Tom and Christopher and the bridge in the background.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Waiting for the train

Sheila and Christopher waiting for the train to take them back to Kings Cross and then home to Huntingdon.

Cub Scout camp

Christopher attended Cub Scout camp at RAF Feltwell this summer. It was a 5 day long day camp.

BB gun shooting

A highlight of camp was learning to shoot bb guns.

Doing what boy do best

Boys will be boys even at cub scout camp. I think they had just as much fun playing in the dirt as they did the activities.

Happy Birthday Tom!

We celebrated by going to Outback and then the next night we had an ice cream cake.

Den 6 Wolves and den leader Sheila

Sheila is the den leader for Christopher's den this year. She has 9 boys in her den. Notice the Spanish sword on the wall. One of our purchases this year.

Day One - Italy - to the top of a volcano

They weren't kidding around when they gave us the walking sticks before we started our 30 minute hike up to the top of Mt Vesuvious. It was quite the hike! We spent 5 days over Columbus Day weekend in Italy, we stayed in Sorrento.

At the top of Mt Vesuvius

Believe it or not, we did make it to the top of Mt Vesuvius. It was pretty neat being on top of a volcano, getting to look down into the crater. It was such a warm day, we could've had shorts on!