After the previous evening, we slept in a bit. Alice came to wake us up when they were on their way to use the free WiFi at McDonald's, but we passed and recovered a bit more, and did some laundry in the sink. After a while, though, we met up with Eddie (who had gone for a run that morning), and the three of us met up with Alice and Martin at McD's.
We parted ways with Eddie back at the hostel, then walked to the Library of Alexandria (bibalex.com). The building itself only opened in 2006, and is quite impressive. Their site has great aerial photos of the disk that is supposed to represent the sun rising over the Mediterranean. We asked for Abdallah's friend ("brother"), Dr. Salagadeen, but he wasn't available. We did meet another hospitality guy from the library, though, and he arranged for us to have free entry and a free tour. He also invited us to his friend's party at a hotel at 9pm that night, but we ended up being too tired to go. The tour was rather short, but we got to learn more about the building, the library's history, how they're digitizing books, and saw an exhibit on old maps and photos of Alexandria.
After our tour, and a bit of photo-opping, we headed down to the beach. The sand was very oddly fine, so you sink down about five inches or so with every step. It was right at sunset and quite beautiful, and after about a half hour or so of romping around and getting our feet wet, we grabbed a cab back to the hotel.
We bought some beers around the corner at a place called "Drinkies", and found that they were only 6LE each! Not to mention, when you bring the bottles back, you get 1LE each as a deposit refund. Sweet! We had a few beers in the billiards room of the hotel, then made our way to a guidebook (and Canadian tourists in the lobby) recommended restaurant named Mohammed Ahmed's. The food was tasty and incredibly cheap (just over 40LE for four of us, including drinks). After dinner, Alice and Martin split a gelato, and G and I had espressos at the famous Brazilian Coffee Shop. Proper coffee! It was amazing.
On the way back to the hotel, we passed another wedding. This bride was all in gold. hmm.
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