Worthless and Weak

So things sucked today.

Big time.

But thats life.

So right now I'm in what seems like (at least to me) a very empty airport in Cairo, I found a spare outlet, hooked my converter and my laptop into it. So everything that happened to me...

THe first flight (BBoston to Rome) had what seemed to be the entirty of the "Bishop Hendrick's High School" class of 2011, I think I overheard that they were going to sing for the Pope, I'm not too sure about that. Maybe you could check out the Bishop Hendrick's high school web page and find out for me. And, I didn't get a wink of sleep during the entire flight, leaving me very tired while in Rome.

Rome's international part of their airport is very confusing, you have to take a tram to the security checkpoint, and then take the same tram back to the terminal you just left. The system they have actually works, but when I did it I felt that I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

The layover in Rome was four hours, I spent it in a desperate struggle to try to stay awake as I was very concerned that if I were to sleep there, I would sleep through my connection.

I evenetually pulled out this laptop and just started writing, that seemed to work Ok at keeping me awake.

Btw, If you ever want to go on a vacation to Rome to shop, you could just go to some other place, provided you have a stop over at Rome. I swear, they have more highscale Italian boutiques than they do gates.

The flight to Cairo was actually pretty good, a man and his wife asked me to trade seats with one of them, as their three girls were sitting alone they wanted to sit next to them. Naturally, I agreed, so as I went to their seat, it turns out it was an emergency exit row! Jackpot. So I actually managed to get some sleep (probably only an hour or two, but it felt excellent.

When I got to Cairo, I had no idea what the hell to do in regards to getting my Visa. I knew that it cost 15 dollars, but I didn't know where to get it. Turns out you have to buy one at the bank and THEn go to passport control.

I was worried about customs, but that was easy. I just walked right past, my bag was waiting for me. Didn't have to declare anything. When I went to the other terminal to get to Luxor (which is where I am right now) (the terminal, not Luxor) (although as I can't post anything from here, I'll have to wait until I get to Luxor until I post this, so I probably will be in Luxor), the lady at the check-in couldn't seem to find my reservation. She told me that my only option was to go to the Flight Controller. The flight controller was a guy who, would ask one question, then would get a phone call on his office phone, as soon as he was done with that, his walkie-talkie would buzz, and he'd have to take that, and his cell phone would ring, and he would randomly get up and yell at people. Eventually, he managed to sign me in and print out my bording pass, (incredibly glad to have it). As I was leaving, I attempted to say "Shukarum Lucca" which I think means thank you in Arabic; and both he and the guy standing next to me laughed at that. No idea if that means that I did anything wrong in saying it, but at least he wasn't mad.

So, after getting some bad Pesto (bad in the sense of it was tough and not tasty, not bad in the sense of making me sick), I managed to find the gate, and am I now writing this very message that you are reading right now.

All thats left for me to do is to go to Luxor, get my bag, get a cab (this is what I'm dreading the most), get to my hotel, check in, and pass out. Its been a very long day (or two days by now), and I can't wait for it to be over, and for my actual vacation to begin.

Ok, so because I have nothing else to do besides find some way to entertain myself for the next hour, I'm going to write about the movie that I saw while Iwas on the airplace. It was "The House on hautned hill" but it was the original one, with Vincent Price. Its available to download for free from the internet because somehow it lost its copyright protection.

The movie was somewhat decent in terms of getting what you expect, I think the only reason anybody sees a Vincent price film is just to listed to Vincent price talk, and he does that enough. But there were several absolutely gigantic plotholes that I really have no choice but to expose.

(btw, spoiler alerts!) The biggest plot-hole was why the Pscyologist and the Price's wife wanted to dump Price's body in acid, after having gotten the freaked out girl to shoot him. I mean, if the whole plan was to get her to shoot him in the first place, wouldn't you want to keep suspicions as low as possible.

Also, what the hell was up with the rope scene? There was absolutley no way for the rope to grab the girl like that without any actual supernatural powers. And another thing, every supernatural type power (save two or three ones) was never actually explained.

And why did the test-pilot go into the wall at the end, and what did he find there?

Finally, the best part of the movie by far is the dancing skeleton at the end of the movie, because it looks so incredibly incredibly fake, and up to that point in the movie you could convince yourself that you were actually whatching a good movie in which everything will be explained in a great climanx; but when the skeleton starts dancing, you're in Silly Symphony territory there.

Anyway, bottom line America, watch this movie if you're bored and have nothing better to do, of ir you're a big fan of Vincent Price. In any case, it has to be better than the new one, right?

Labels: Egypt, vacation