Day 177 - Lili's Mom Arrives in Cairo

Thursday, December 27th, 2018

Today I woke up very excited to see my mom! She left on the night of December 25th and arrived today at 4:00am. I thought they were going to sleep in but when I checked my phone, I already had a message from her. She texted me asking us to hurry up that she was dying to see us. Of course, I hurried everyone up to get ready to go. We had breakfast, took Uber to her hotel, and got there around noon.

It felt so good to hug her and I couldn't help it but cry. I really needed her so much and I was so thankful that she came to the rescue. We spent the rest of the day in her hotel, the Mercure Sphinx. It wasn't super fancy but it was quiet, clean and pretty. She brought us many bags of presents for everybody: clothes for Sunshine and me, Mexican candy for Daniel and tequila for Gregory, which he and she started to drink right away.

We were going to eat out and went we went outside to look for a place to eat. The street was cold and noisy. My mom immediately said she'd rather eat in the hotel. I'm sure she got scared or intimidated of seeing and hearing the traffic. I don't blame her, I remembered how I felt the first day. We went back to the cafe restaurant in the hotel and my mom treated us for lunch.

At night, Gregory walked who knows where, and brought some fuul (a mix of lentils, tabouleh, oil, and tahina) sandwiches and that was our dinner. Ali didn't want to eat "street food" so she and Sunshine went downstairs for soup. It was so hard to say goodbye to my mom and her warm room. I didn't want to go back to our cold home but I promised myself to change my attitude and start seeing only the pretty stuff or the positive in this trip.



So happy with my mom and my niece Ali!

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