Red Sea Resort

May 11, 2007

Early afternoon yesterday we checked in to the Le Meridien, Makida Bay, located on the Red Sea. It’s a huge, 5-star resort of the all-inclusive, Mexican style. The guests are primarily German, Russian and a few other European countries—Americans are rare here. In fact the staff has a fun time trying to guess where we are from, they do not know what an American accent sounds like—we are mistaken for British, German or Dutch. Kait and I are able to understand a lot of the German signs (the boat was all German, no English). However, Kait’s definitely more “fluent” in Arabic now, German has become her third language. We will be staying here until Sunday morning and the only thing on the agenda is sun, swim, sleep and eat—no sightseeing (of temples and tombs).

There is however sightseeing of another variety when you are at a European resort, the people watching is really good here—much better than the State Fair.

Kait and Shady did a nice job of planning this trip so that we would have these days to really relax and rest before we hit Cairo again. We really wish Shady could be here but he started his new job last Monday and that is certainly more important. We will see him when we get back to Cairo on Sunday. Kait will have to go to work on Monday as she just started a new job a week before we came and she told them she needed the week off while we were here. In case you hadn’t heard, Shady is working for Orange—a European Company, in charge of their e-mail network(including McDonalds) (sorry Shady I’m not very good with the details), and Kait is working for Sony Erickson (the Swedish company)—doing a special project related to quality control.

That’s it for tonight, we can hear the music in the disco just outside our patio, and this resort is a cross between the resort in “Dirty Dancing” and an Arabic version of a Disney resort. Lots of activities for kids and adults. Mike made friends with a female impersonator in the bar before supper—don’t worry we have a picture.