It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but with belly dancers....

"We three ex-pats from India are,
Bearing gifts, we travel so far,
Gulf Air, Northwest, KL & M,
On to Minnesota's stars...."

Our adventure back to Minnesota began with a lay-over in Bahrain. As soon as we stepped from the plane, things began to start looking a lot like Christmas. The airport in Bahrain was really decked out for the holidays and one would have thought that they had stepped into a mall in the US, except that the snow had a desert tint to it, and the stores were Gucci, Prada and Rolex, ...and you could pick up a Bentley in the Duty Free shop (I wonder how that works with the carry-on restrictions).
The Santa display was robotic and very elaborate.

Our next stop took us to Cairo, Egypt, and the holiday spirit was in full swing there with Christmas music on the radio and decorations everywhere.
We took a dinner cruise on the Nile, complete with entertainment.
Caden's reaction to the belly dancer was summed up in just one word, "Wow!"
The tour of the Museum of Antiquities was quite good, but with so much to exhibit, if one took just one minute to look at each of the items on display, they would be there for 30 years (that doesn't include the 2/3 of the exhibit that was out of the rotation at the time of our visit). We had to settle for the highlights, but it was well worth the visit.

A trip to the Citadel and, of course the pyramids..

"Um, Ma'am, when I said the Holy Family stayed here, I meant Jesus, Mary and Joseph"
Cairo was a very fun town to visit and we would highly recommend the trip.
Of course what trip wouldn't be complete without a Hookah cafe stop?