Lazy Day

Hello loyal readers! Yesterday was a lazy day, slathered with Dead Sea Mud. You wander down to the beach and there is a pot of warm black muck which you rub all over yourself, with the assistance of some young man with his family who obliges putting it on your back. You wait 20 minutes and then hobble into the sea, which has a very rocky slippery base, and wash the stuff off. I have to say my skin felt very smooth after, but I think there was just a layer of clay on it! Taking a bath later left the water kind of ashy......

The view across the Dead Sea is really something. Very tall mountains (the western side of the fault) and then Jericho clinging to the sea. You can see the lights of Jerurselum beyond the first mountain range. There are a number of high-end hotels running along the coast here- seems to be a playground for Eastern Europeans. I always get such a hoot out of some Russian men. You see it in Russia too, old men with young women on their arm who look like "hooker Barbie." It's a Russian thing.

So we are off to Egypt this evening around 7 PM, with a full day of sight-seeing tomorrow. Tomorrow night we dine with an Egyptian family in their home. I have been hauling Godiva chocolates from home as a gift- hope they aren't a mass of molten chocolate by now.

So off to breakie.  More tomorrow!