A Respite on the Red Sea

The next two days were rest days in a most delightful place. The Marriott Hotel in Taba Egypt. It is located right on the Red Sea and is beautiful and very comfortable. We started out by sleeping in until 9:00a.m. I didn't know that I could still do that, but we did and it was delicious. When I woke up and looked out the window of our room it took my breath away. The sun was shining and the Red Sea was right there in front of us.

After a quick breakfast we went swimming in the Red Sea. It isn't red but very very blue and warm enough to be comfortable. The bottom is very rocky and made walking in the water difficult. The temperature stayed around high 70's to low 80's perfect!

That afternoon we signed up for a ride on a glass bottom boat. The Red Sea has a wide variety of vibrant colored fish but we saw some fantastic ones but we didn't see as many different ones as expected. The coral made up for it though; a lot of very unusual ones and some really enormous ones.

The next day we spent most all of our time at the beach and at the wonderful pools. It was wonderfully relaxing and just what the doctor ordered. :)







This evening Dr. Michael King gave a lecture about Egypt. Dr. King was involved in producing a television program for Discovery Channel about the death of King Tut. They did a lot of forensic research and came up with the conclusion that he was murdered by his prime minister. The program won a Tony award and was very interesting. His involvement with this program gave him a wealth of background knowledge especially about the tombs that we will see.