My mom was planning to make a life-long dream come true tomorrow. She's been planning this trip to Egypt on a jealousy-inducing 18-day tour for months now. Starting out in Cairo, and heading down the Nile on a cruise boat for several days. The trip features camel rides (can NOT imagine her on a camel...she can't even deal with cat hair), falukah rides (whatever that is), flights to Abu Simbal, Pyramids, Luxor, temples, Valley of the Kings, all sorts of Moses stuff, ancient tombs, King Tut's mummy now that it's open for public viewing for the first time in history, museums, bazaars, handsome Egyptian men and smelly ones too, sand, lots of sand, more sand, sand, sand, and all sorts of other cool stuff. We spent the Saturday before Halloween reviewing her trip, looking at all her new purchases - I can't think of a better excuse for a new wardrobe, can you? ...and talking about getting there and away, and not having Thanksgiving at home for the first time. Very ver
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Here I'm lucky enough to have Sam's and Costco across a freeway from each other. Our "run" consists of hitting one, the other, then either looping back up the freeway to the "Supercenter" or the other way to the "Neighborhood Market". As long as we don't go at 3 in the afternoon on a Friday, it's 2 hours from out the door to back in again. Now that I get my pension check on the 1st, that's usually the run for a month except for milk, eggs and lettuce...
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