Pallavi's parents and her sister decided to take a two week holiday to Egypt and Turkey, and we are going to join them. Before they arrive, we had one last weekend with Heba & Nayeli. What better weekend to pick than Halloween weekend. Apparently, Nayeli LOVES Halloween. She loves Halloween in an artsy-crafts months of pre-planning kind of way. She loves Halloween so much that we spent our entire trip in Morocco brainstorming various things that we could devise out of our limited backpacker clothes and turn into a costume.
I had all sorts of costume plans, but in true Sarah form, procrastination took its toll and I ended up with nothing by the time we landed! I owned up and prepared to face their wrath. What did I get? I got tons of creative last-minute costume ideas. We got up, brunched, went to the various Egyptian Pound stores, and pulled together the last crystal ball of Pallavi's fortune teller costume (which she had created already before Egypt) and a few boxes of cereal later, they had turned me into the Cereal Killer!
I really have missed my American holidays, but I'm so glad I got to spend Halloween with these ladies!
Then the next day, Heba & Nayeli invited us to join them to an Egyptian wedding that they had to attend. This was our second wedding in two months. Thankfully I had my Moroccan dress to wear (which apparently people really, really love). This wedding was completely different than the Moroccan one. There was liquor. There were men and women sitting together. Nobody was doing that great 'congratulations' chant that they do in Morocco. Hardly any woman was wearing a head scarf. The only thing that was similar was that it was a Muslim wedding (I think!).
The wedding was held in this beautiful venue, The Swiss Club. According to Heba, back in the day, there use to be many such clubs like this one. This club was for Swiss citizens to sit, relax, drink, play lawn games, etc. At the time, it was in a really nice Middle Class neighborhood. Now, it's a diamond in the rough. Not many of these clubs exist any longer, so I'm so glad that we got to experience this one. Nothing like a bit of American & Egyptian culture before we get back on the Egypt Tourism Trail.
I had all sorts of costume plans, but in true Sarah form, procrastination took its toll and I ended up with nothing by the time we landed! I owned up and prepared to face their wrath. What did I get? I got tons of creative last-minute costume ideas. We got up, brunched, went to the various Egyptian Pound stores, and pulled together the last crystal ball of Pallavi's fortune teller costume (which she had created already before Egypt) and a few boxes of cereal later, they had turned me into the Cereal Killer!
I really have missed my American holidays, but I'm so glad I got to spend Halloween with these ladies!
Then the next day, Heba & Nayeli invited us to join them to an Egyptian wedding that they had to attend. This was our second wedding in two months. Thankfully I had my Moroccan dress to wear (which apparently people really, really love). This wedding was completely different than the Moroccan one. There was liquor. There were men and women sitting together. Nobody was doing that great 'congratulations' chant that they do in Morocco. Hardly any woman was wearing a head scarf. The only thing that was similar was that it was a Muslim wedding (I think!).
The wedding was held in this beautiful venue, The Swiss Club. According to Heba, back in the day, there use to be many such clubs like this one. This club was for Swiss citizens to sit, relax, drink, play lawn games, etc. At the time, it was in a really nice Middle Class neighborhood. Now, it's a diamond in the rough. Not many of these clubs exist any longer, so I'm so glad that we got to experience this one. Nothing like a bit of American & Egyptian culture before we get back on the Egypt Tourism Trail.
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