Well I tried to take a video of the entire hotel area to give everyone an introduction to where we were staying, but uploading it to facebook would take 4.5 hours.  As passionate as I am about this blog,  I do not have the motivation to guard my computer for that long in the lobby that has WiFi here, so I will have to wait until hopefully Cairo, or back in America (worst case scenario) to upload the videos I've taken.

Yesterday we arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh after an 11 hour flight to Cairo, followed by a 2 hour lay-over to Sharm.  There's a time difference of 7 hours, but I've adjusted alright so far.  We'll see if jet lag hits me later this week though.  After arriving we got settled in the hotel and then explored the local area to get our bearings.  We went out to the street markets and did some haggling, which I really enjoy.  I bought an Egyptian soccer jersey that's pretty cool.  We also ate some pretty good dinner and then walked around more before calling it an early night to get ready for the early wake-up the next morning.

 This morning we all met down in the common area for diving at 08:00 a.m.  with somre really great dive masters from the United Kingdom as our guides.  The first dive was really great, we saw a lot of interesting marine life and coral.  We ended up skipping the second dive because we decided to hike up Mt. Sinai tonight (riding camels, so excited!) so we can't dive because we risk getting the "bends" which is basically just a big can of badness to avoid the physics lesson.  I'm really excited to see this historical mountain and learn more about Egyptian culture.

Sorry again for not being able to get my video posted.  I'll try to get more pictures posted on later blogs to compensate.