Between Egypt and Turkey - 5 & 6 November

Everyone had a spectacular time in Egypt. I haven’t heard a single person say anything negative about their time there. They all say it was their favorite port too. I’m going to become a one woman tourist board and urge everyone to put Egypt on their itinerary. They won’t be sorry.

I had dinner with my nieces and nephew on the 6^th as we continued our tradition of meeting for dinner between ports. I had some requests for photos of my Explorer nieces and nephews so I brought my camera with me. Unfortunately, one of my nieces couldn’t come to dinner so we are missing one in the photo. I’ll be sure to take a picture at our next dinner too. In the meantime, here they are from left to right: me, Lindsey, Mike, and Brigitte, missing – Julie.

I am a trip leader for an excursion around Turkey to Gallipoli, Troy, Bursa and Iznik. It’s going to be a lot of time on the bus and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we won’t have any 2:30 wake-up calls because that would be totally heinous, and just down right wrong!

We pull into port around 8:00 tomorrow but since my trip isn’t scheduled until the 8^th I don’t have to worry about getting out of bed tomorrow and can sleep in until they tell us to come get our passports. Eileen and I plan to tour Istanbul in the afternoon tomorrow so I hope to have lots to share with you about it. I’m really looking forward to seeing the city.