Cairo tower is a lotus flower

Today was a great day. The first thing I did was get on the bus. I sat in the window seat, hanging half out of the window. The bus was heading downtown.

When we got there we went looking for the Cairo Tower. We could see the giant thing over our heads but we took the wrong street and couldn't get up. When we finally found the correct street to get to the tower we went up in the elevator. It took three minutes because the building has sixty-eight floors! The tower is 187 metres high. What a random number. 

When we got to the top we looked down from the circular balcony, which goes around the whole tower. It was so high! The view is amazing because you can see across all of the beautiful city, including the Pyramids and the River Nile, with the sun shimmering on the water. I wasn’t worried about falling down because the bars are really high. I felt like a bee on a giant flower because the tower is designed in the shape of a lotus flower, which is Egypt’s national flower. People were blowing up balloons, throwing them off the tower and watching them float down. We took a few photos and kept going. 

We walked back downtown over Qasr el Nil bridge. The bridge is where the first protest was in the 2011 Revolution as people walked across it towards Tahrir Square. 

We were feeling a little bit peckish so we started looking for a shop called Felfella. This man said he would take us to the shop and even though we didn’t need his help we started following him so he could feel helpful. But instead of taking us to Felfella, he took us to his own shop. He was scamming us! We walked into his shop. It was a perfume shop. He told us a story about Mohamed Ali being in his shop. He even showed us a photo. He was trying to sell us a bottle of perfume essence. In the end we ended up with a bottle of perfume. And we call ourselves Egyptian! That's the oldest trick in the book. 

When we finally got to Felfella, I ate falafel sandwiches with hot chips. In Egypt, falafel is called taamiyya. My stomach was full after this meal. It was delicious.