On the Train Again

We soon had to leave to make it to our train by 6pm. On the way we stopped at a McDonalds and picked up McFlurries. We hopped on the train, not a sleeper train this time, and met  Sean (an American). We chatted with him for a bit before settling into our seats. (We were entirely exhausted and beginning to get slightly grumpy.)  

Sean was seated a few rows back from us next to an irritating posse of 20 something Egyptian creepers. We could hear them chatting and the all of the sudden the Egyptian creepers start asking him questions about us. And, Sean, the dipwad, tells them that we are Americans teaching in Tanzania and that we are travelling Egypt and that we are getting off the same stop as him, at Aswan. I was literally about the strangle this boy. NOTE TO ALL BOYS: DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY INFORMATION ABOUT GIRLS TRAVELLING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY TO RANDOM LOCAL CREEPERS!. HELLO?!?  So then the creepers come over to bother us. One sits next to Kelly across the aisle and when she refuses to talk to him, he has a one sided conversation pretending that she’s talking to him. He then decides to whistle loudly in our direction and later just talk about us to his friends.

We weren’t entirely sure which stop to get off at, but we thought it might be the last stop. At one point the Egyptian creeper told Sean that the train was stopped at Aswan. He asked us if we should get off and I asked a man and he said that it was definitely NOT the Aswan stop. I told Sean to sit back down and the Egyptian creepers got off. I can only imagine what would have happened if we had just gotten off at that stop, with the posse of Egyptian creepers, in the middle of the night.

We then get off at the (correct) stop at about midnight and head to our hotel, Memnon Hotel. Sean tagged along with us cause he didn’t have a reservation anywhere yet. We get to the hotel and inquire about day trips to Abu Simbel (the whole point of us going to Aswan) only to hear that the day trip bus leaves at 4 in the morning. We had gotten absolutely no sleep the past two nights and now we get to sleep a total of 3 hours before getting up and going again. But we did it.