A Canadian in Abu Dhabi: Four days in Cairo and it's hard to tell what impressed me most

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Four days in Cairo and it's hard to tell what impressed me most

These:

...or this super-fantastic creature created by Ahmed, the extremely enthusiastic cleaner assigned to our 17th-floor room at the Hilton.

(Augmented by our partially-consumed bottle of Egyptian scotch, a glass, mobile phone and two carnations)

5 comments:

A 2 Z said...: What happened to your enthusiastic cleaner? Looks like he got all wrapped up in his work. LOL; February 7, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Trish said...: Did you add the details, or did he?; February 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Ann Marie McQueen said...: He did!!! We were killing ourselves...

Bah ha A2Z; February 8, 2010 at 12:06 AM
Trish said...: Oh that is sooo funny!; February 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM
ibnu negara said...: hai ann, pleasure to read your writing here,good,funny, like a snack, nice to meet you.; February 12, 2010 at 10:11 PM

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