I love taking pictures of Christmas trees. There are many here in Cairo and other areas I have visited.
For my birthday on Christmas Eve we left Luxor and flew back to Cairo. The resort had decorations and played Christmas music continuously.
After a quick workout at the gym we stopped at 4 fat ladies bakery. They are amazing and make Western cakes and cookies. We bought a slice for each of us to celebrate my birthday. We ate a cookie walking around and looking at shops along the way back to Nicole’s apartment. They even had gingerbread which I bought for the car ride tomorrow to Alexandria.
Once back at the apartment we had cake. Mine was a fudge cake with lotus frosting. The others were an apple cake and carrot cake. Yummy!
For dinner we went to a great seafood restaurant called Ibn Hamido in New Cairo. It was fabulous and very famous. On the way I found other decorations as well as a mosque with a service station next to it. The sign in the hill says chill out!
The seafood bisque was buttery but not too rich. We also had Sea Bass on a bed of gratin potatoes. The shrimp, fish, and tahini were delicious.
I see these Santa’s in many places here.
Afterwards, Nicole and I went to the new City Centre mall and watched the new Star Wars movie. It is an unbelievably immense mall and the decorations were beautiful.
A hazy start to this Christmas morning. May everyone have a Merry Christmas!
