prairies2pyramids: valentines day- cairo edition

I wake up, and realize i FINALLY get to bust out my 'v-day' earrings- pink sparkly dangly hearts that say 'i love you' and go to school. The kids are excited because theres parties and bake sales all day.
I get cookies, valentines and one telegram. :)

After i get home (5-ish) Luther and i exchange presents. He gets a case for his ipad and NORTH AMERICAN oreos (not to be confused with 'boreos'- the egyptian knock-off you can find everywhere). I get flowers, a bear, chocolate cake and dinner. He asks me what i want to do. I say..

'CAMEL RIDING!'

'ok ally, its a bit late at night to go camel riding. we'll do it tomorrow.'

'ok darling' :)

So Luther takes me to the area of 'zamalek'- a part of cairo i really like. Its filled with shopping, fancy hotels and restaurants. Its also where many of the floating nile restaurants are. We enter 'buddha bar' in the 'Ciaro Sofitel Hotel'- one of the nicest restaurants in the city. It was a fixed menu but whatever.

Whoa. It was nice.

We ate, danced, and went to the casino (a rarity in cairo, as it is illegal to gamble here)

Afterwards, we cabbed home, watched '5-year engagement' with chocolate cake and strawberries from 'le Poire' (a popular gourmet bakery) and had a good laugh (luther had many as he had downed an entire bottle of wine.)