field trip today

hi y'all,

everything is wonderful here today. i bought salad materials today and didn't get ripped on prices. it really helps to be a regular customer here. i have one grocery-esque store that i go to in which they recognize me, one vegetable stand which they are starting to recognize me, but i haven't found a fruit place yet. if i don't get scammed the first time for being a foreigner and the food is good i will usually go back and make myself a regular.

i went on another field trip today. this time to darb al ahmar. this is a street outside the 2nd south walls of cairo. we went through baab zuwela which is something like door of the saddlemakers (i am not sure) then hit up some mosques. they were all pretty cool. i've got pictures of them and will post and label them as soon as i can either a remember or b figure out which ones they are. the coolest was the mosque of prince al maridani. it has a closed off mecca wall (where the people pray) with this huge and fabulous mashrabiya screen. then there are trees growing where the cistern used to be, so when you look in the door it looks like something fantastical in there. as if it was one of those places where you step through the door hear the birds and realize that you are on a different world. it was almost surreal at somepoints too.