Pesach are abound

Who knows how plans will work out, but i am very very excited. We got our Visas all ready so this weekend Sam, Pavel and I are going to Egypt.

Saturday night, after buses resume their transporting, we will be taking a bus down to Eilat and spending the night. We then plan to relax on the beach there for the day (and hopefully hang out with brandon who's there with his momma). Sunday night we are going to cross the border into the Egyptian town of Taba where we will take a night bus to Cairo. We plan to spend time in Cairo, Luxor, maybe day trip to Alexandria and a night in the Sinai.

So the question many people are asking me is, "why would you not want to spend passover/pesach in israel?" i have a few reasons. first of all, my life is very up in the air right now as some of you may know and I really needed to just plan something and do something and have it succeed. so we'll see how this goes, but i have high hopes. After thinking more and talking to my friend Danit, I realized a few more things. Passover celebrates the exodus and freedom of the Hebrews from Egypt, so now it's pretty cool that I get to return as a free man. Also, how cool will it be to climb Mount Sinai over passover? so cool!

and about safety, don't worry. i've been looking into travel advisories and Egypt is supposed to be very safe at the moment. Obviously there is no such thing as a sure thing so i cannot promise our 100% safety. but just know that we have done the research and we have been watching the news and checking travel advisories for American tourists and there is nothing going on that should raise alarm.

Don't worry, i will be taking many many pictures and by this time next week will have seen one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world (pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx is there too)!