July 25 - Egypt: Na'ama Bay - the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt 

Special guest appearance by Jon:  Well, it's Heidi's turn to be sick today so I get to take over the journal for the day!  Hmm, where to begin?  We think we have narrowed down how Heidi got sick - probably from the lunch she ate on the boat after the second dive on the Thistlegorm.  After a superb seasickness performance for which I reached down deep for inspiration, I thought it best not to eat lunch while we were still at sea.  Who knew that would be such an important decision??

Heidi says that my journal entries tend to be a bit gross.  I think I did a good job of not mentioning that breakfast was even better the second time around!  Actually, after the seasickness episode I've decided to keep track of how many times we puke - so far it's up to two times for each of us, the altitude sickness on Mt. Kilimanjaro and the seasickness due to the thick swells on the way to the Thistlegorm.  I will be making every effort to keep this tally current, but Heidi's sense of good taste may prevail. 

So anyway, here I am with all of this responsibility.  We haven't actually done much today.  We managed to run a few errands such as buying about 9 more liters of water (we tend to drink about 4 liters apiece because it's so hot here) and exploring the shopping area in search of a dive logbook.  You'd think that finding a dive log would be easy enough, and we have seen several but they all look like colouring books with all of the cartoon figures and pictures of shells and fish and stuff.  Heidi's filled her first logbook and doesn't want to be stuck with some silly thing for the next diving sites (which we think is Thailand).  We found one that looked serious enough, even though she really wanted one like mine (dive log envy) and we scurried off in the mid-day heat for some lunch.

After lunch was naptime.  Egyptians take their siestas seriously.  Pretty much everything closes, and despite the fact that some places stay open (shops in the bazaar, etc.) the person working there may just pull out a rug and curl up to go to sleep right there in the shop.  They must be paid by the hour!  We napped for a few hours then made it to Egyptian Air to reconfirm our airline reservations for Friday.  It seems that despite the fact that we have bought a ticket for travel, we still need to drop by the ticket office within 72 hours of our flight to actually reconfirm our intention to fly on the ticket that we bought.  As though paying all that money wasn't enough of a sign of our commitment!  And they don't even give you a seat assignment until you get to the airport on the day of the flight!!

I spent a little time at the internet cafe trying to catch up on world events and emails, and saw that the Dodgers are riding a 4 game win streak and are within 1/2 game of first in the NL West.  Of course, now that I've actually written that they will be cursed and will end up finishing in last place at the end of the season...

I brought dinner back to the hotel since Heidi was still feeling pretty bad, and that was about it for the day :)