Sick in Luxor

We got of the plane in Luxor went to our hotel, had dinner there and went to bed. First thing next morning Day 4 we took a carriage ride (which was an experience, I have it on video) to the Karnak temple. The Karnak temple was my favorite thing I saw on in Egypt, I think. It is Colossal, basically it blows your mind. The pictures I took don't even describe it. My favorite part was the hypostyle hall which has 150ish pillars that are huge (you could fit like 40 people on the top of each of the pillars they said) and inscribed completely and used to be in full color. It was amazing just to look up and walk slowly and try to imagine what it used to look like before the colors faded. Next we went to the Luxor Temple which was also amazing. The grandest stuff you can even imagine were achieved in these temples. At this point I was kind of out of it becuase I was starting to feel definitely sick. Body aches and a head ache and really tired. I kept sunglasses over my eyes and trudged along the last little bit and went with the first group back to the hotel. After lunch I thought I'd feel better but I had a fever. The plan for the afternoon was to go on a falucca ride on the Nile. In my hotel room after a short nap I got up to go but I was freezing cold and shivering. I wanted to go and see if I would snap out of it but decided to play it safe and stayed in bed. Everyone who went said the felucca ride turned into a motor boat ride on the Nile and that it was really windy and cold. I'm glad I didn't put myself through that. The whole rest of the evening both me and my roomate were sick so we both slept and slept. Neither of us could find our itineraries and didn't know what room other people were in or what was going on. At about 6:40 we decided to go walk around the hotel and see if we could find anyone we knew. We went into the restaurant and found everyone finishing dinner. It was good we found them or we would have missed dinner. It's really precarious when both roomates are sick cause they can't really take care of each other. After eating we went to the Drapers room for a lesson on the facimiles and both went back to bed. It was a rough night. There was a pile of tissues in between our beds and we woke up many times. Our room hadn't been serviced because we were in it when they wanted to (our towels were dirty and toilet paper was running low). In the middle of the night around 3 a.m. I woke up and drank the last of my 1.5 liter waterbottle. This was bad because I was very sick and couldn't wait til morning. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know who to call and I couldn't ask my sick roomate to do anything. I decided to call the hotel. I called the front desk, no answer. I called room service and after a lot of ringing a 'welcome to quicky mart' voice answered. I asked with a very hoarse voice for water,"wa-ter, wa-ter, wa-ter" "blah blah blah room number?" "three-forty four, three- four- four, three four- four" "blah blah blah you pay?""Yes, yes, yes". I was so happy when that bottle of water got to my room! I even gave the guy a good tip. I think the antihistimine drugs the doc had given me really dried me out cause I downed that water I think by morning. The next day Day 5 I got up hoping to feel better and snap out of it. I put on sunglasses and dizzily got on the bus to go to the valley of the kings. Everyone around me had so much energy I was hoping I wouldn't regret coming...to be continued