[Resurrected] Yukon, Hat Kon, we all Kon!

[globaleagle]

Hat: Dear Lovely Ladies and gross guys.

Now we're all in a relatively good mood, it's time to head off on an adventure again.....

As we all know too much snow makes ge's little brain freeze even more than usual so as a treat I took him to the hottest place I could think of.

ge: You don't even have a brain.

Hat: I don't know what's more embarrassing; that you continue to argue with a hat, or that you always lose. Now quiet, adults are talking.

Hat: Lets start off with some basic shapes.

Triangle....

Some more triangles.....

Think these bad boys are in the middle of the desert? Check the view from my hotel room....

And someone about ge's age....

I was amazed at how many tourists do the pose in front just to look like they are kissing the Sphinx! (perverts). One lady from New Zealand said "I don't know why I'm closing my eyes when going for the kiss!!" - we laughed.

And this guy still looks better than ge!

Enjoy!

 

[manlyfan76]

Hi hat, please look after GE, don't let him get lost in Egypt.

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Looking forward to hat’s next geometry lesson

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Elgey’s Marbles perhaps, or Brookvale Oval 😉

 

[manlyfan76]

Elgey’s Marbles perhaps, or Brookvale Oval 😉

Barrett's oval shaped table.

 

[Woodsie]

Looking forward to hat’s next geometry lesson

Agree ... hopefully he will have informed the Moose that they are triangular prisms by then ....

 

[globaleagle]

Hat: Pffffft @Woodsie, if I said prism to ge he'd run around yelling prison! prison! I don't wanna go to prison! I swear he makes lint look like a ball of pure genius.

ge: I only did that once.

Hat: Oh well that makes it fine then....

Anyway....we moved on to Aswan and stayed at the "Old Cataract Hotel". I don't usually do plugs (as I'm a hat) but it was fantastic. Probably my favourite hotel ever. So much history (Agatha Christie wrote death on the Nile here); Winston Churchill dropped in, stayed, and opened a few things and really, think of someone famous, and they've probably stayed here. The staff are brilliant.

Now, you can stay in the same room Christie stayed in and it's only *cough* $10,000 a night! So here's a pic from our room looking over at it! (lol)
It's top floor, middle. The room underneath (with the awning) is Winston Churchill's room. The hotel offers tours, we took one. Plush!

Next Mrs ge negotiated a boat (as ge is useless) - and everything... everything is a negotiation in Egypt (and you always lose) and we went to Sehel Island, famous for a few things but mostly for the "Famine Stela" (look it up).

ge: If you guys knew what I had to go through to get that pic...you'd instantly make me member of the year!

Now because you all got more info than usual I will round today off with a nice cool drink. It had some interesting 'words' on it. (I assume).

And also staff seem to love folding towels into animals. This one still has a better memory than ge. (Both pics taken while on a boat cruise on...the Nile)

Better pics later!


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Bonus Pic!!!!

 

[Woodsie]

I thought the Nile was big ... Queenscliff lagoon has that covered ....

 

[globaleagle]

I thought the Nile was big ... Queenscliff lagoon has that covered ....

That's just the Hotel's second wading pool.

 

[Ralphie]

Very courageous GE. My daughter is an Aussie Diplomat with DFAT and she tells me that is currently a very very dangerous part of the world.

Stay Safe!

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Very courageous GE. My daughter is an Aussie Diplomat with DFAT and she tells me that is currently a very very dangerous part of the world.

Stay Safe!

Very dangerous especially if your not part of the faith that has occupied the country

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Hat: Pffffft @Woodsie, if I said prism to ge he'd run around yelling prison! prison! I don't wanna go to prison! I swear he makes lint look like a ball of pure genius.

ge: I only did that once.

Hat: Oh well that makes it fine then....

Anyway....we moved on to Aswan and stayed at the "Old Cataract Hotel". I don't usually do plugs (as I'm a hat) but it was fantastic. Probably my favourite hotel ever. So much history (Agatha Christie wrote death on the Nile here); Winston Churchill dropped in, stayed, and opened a few things and really, think of someone famous, and they've probably stayed here. The staff are brilliant.

Now, you can stay in the same room Christie stayed in and it's only *cough* $10,000 a night! So here's a pic from our room looking over at it! (lol)
It's top floor, middle. The room underneath (with the awning) is Winston Churchill's room. The hotel offers tours, we took one. Plush!

Next Mrs ge negotiated a boat (as ge is useless) - and everything... everything is a negotiation in Egypt (and you always lose) and we went to Sehel Island, famous for a few things but mostly for the "Famine Stela" (look it up).

ge: If you guys knew what I had to go through to get that pic...you'd instantly make me member of the year!

Now because you all got more info than usual I will round today off with a nice cool drink. It had some interesting 'words' on it. (I assume).

And also staff seem to love folding towels into animals. This one still has a better memory than ge. (Both pics taken while on a boat cruise on...the Nile)

Better pics later!


......

Bonus Pic!!!!

Nice pics... this hat thing is hilarious seriously hahaha

 

[OneEyedEagle]

@globaleagle and HAT, that really looked like an interesting trip, how long was it for?

 

[StuBoot]

Damn!
I saw the thread title and thought it was going to be about a pretty lady named Sandy in a bikini!

 

[globaleagle]

@globaleagle and HAT, that really looked like an interesting trip, how long was it for?

Until the mission is completed.

About 3 weeks. 🙂

 

[Class of 96]

That is one very spoilt hat!

PS...don’t tell Hat I dissed him!

 

[globaleagle]

ge: I'll try @Class of 96 but hat seems to know everything!

Hat: I know you spent an hour in shower allegedly 'removing sand' pervert!

ge: Your job is to provide shade, not throw shade!

Hat: Your job is to look like an idiot. You're doing it so well I hear you're being promoted to moron, first class. Now time for pics!

Here I am at the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut (or "chicken hot soup" the locals call her), Egypt's second female Pharaoh and a kick ass one at that. Temp = 38 degrees. Wah.

We then drove to the Ramesseum where we were the only ones there (awesome). One of the things the site is famous for is the collapsed statue of Ramses II which inspired Percy Shelly's most famous poem "Ozymandias". (Look it up...learn something! lol)

In this pic you can see the toes of the great statue and the head has fallen away from the camera. I think I'll include another one non hat pic from a better angle.

Just imagine I've walked to the left from the previous photo and you get the side view of the fallen statue.

See? Learning is fun!

One morning ge thought it would be a good idea to get up at 3.30am, hire a car and drive the four hours or so to another world famous site... Abu Simbel.

ge: Actually it was Mrs ge's idea.

Hat: Ah that explains why it was a good one then. That makes more sense.

Massive rock carvings of two temples dedicated to Ramses II and his Queen wife Nefertari (no... not Nefertiti). It was filled with tourists as soon as it opened, about 7.30am, so they can get in and out before the heat hits. We too got there early but waited out the crowds until we were the only ones left. Hot (as always) but brilliant hieroglyphs inside the temples and the outside reliefs are massive. Amazing.

"All by myyyyyy - sellllllf!" la la la Ramses II temple...

Nefertari temple:

And because you've all been good boys and girls, here is a bonus pic from inside the temple.... Hieroglyphs complete with a Pharaoh's willy!

Have a wonderful day!

 

[manlyfan76]

Did they explain what the pyramids were built for, by whom and when?

 

[globaleagle]

Did they explain what the pyramids were built for, by whom and when?

Yes, but we're not allowed to tell. People have to go to Egypt to find out.

"The ultimate freemasons" with all those stones!

 

[globaleagle]

Ok Ok, I get it.

Pics of Pyramids... some likes.

Pics of a Pharaoh hieroglyph with a willy, hardly any likes! I understand.

Now, before I leave Egypt, here's a bonus for you. The most highly decorated tomb in Egypt is Nefertari's tomb. It's as spectacular as it is hard to get a ticket for, and absolutely no pictures to be taken inside.

So below is 'definitely' not a pic of the inside of Nefertari's tomb, ok? You're friggen welcome!

Hello Jordan, you're a nice country as well!

We're at Petra, no sightings of Indiana Jones nor the Holy grail. I did bring cold cuts from the hotel to feed a heap of stray doggos though.

The treasury (the one from the movie)...

And then "The monastery"

Oh my God, forget what I said before about the Famine stela, this is one s.o.b. to get too. About a 3 k walk just to get to the base, then about 850 steps up with narrow pathways (and donkeys) and heat and more heat... ugh, this pic should make me silvertailer of the year!

Have a great day.

Ta ta!