Snorkeling in the Red Sea

Today we went on a glass bottom boat out into the Red Sea. The color is absolutely amazing and crystal clear. Ron, Jen, Dave and I snorkeled. In the afternoon we came back and Dave made reservations for us on a dive boat tomorrow. Unfortunately I am still sick, which relegates me to snorkeling instead of diving. I'm really disappointed because I was really looking forward to doing that. But, I'm learning to be content in all situations. Ron and Dave will go scuba diving. We leave on the dive boat at 8 am, and get back at four. I am so looking forward to a day on the water. Dave is going to rent an underwater camera, so he'll be able to take pictures of Ron under the water and us as we snorkel.

As soon as we get back in, we're taking a bus back to Cairo. We'll arrive there around midnight. Five hours later we'll take a private car to Nuweiba in the Sinai. Hopefully we'll arrive in time to catch the ferry across the Gulf of Aqqaba into Jordan. We'll spend the night there, then early the next morning will go visit Petra. After we come back from Petra we'll try to get a ride straight to Saint Katherine's, where we'll spend two days at the monastary. As I understand, we'll be getting up at 2:30 to climb the mountain for the sunrise. I'm not sure when I'll get to blog again since we're not taking Dave's computer on this leg of the trip, and I'm not expecting internet access while we're in the monastary. We'll leave the monastary on Saturday morning, and hopefully arrive in Cairo in time for our plane back home.

Dave took us by to see his flat today. Now I have a much better sense of where he lives.

That's all I can think of now. Being on the water today was really relaxing and I'm tired and drifting off to bed. It's beautiful during the day here, but when the sun goes down it's much colder than I thought it would be. Thank you again for all of your prayers. Talk to you later.

-Musing Mom