sAe: It's Chinese New Year, and that means that for the first time ever, we'll be doing a joint update. Eel's back from Melbourne, and today she came over to my house and we took a picture of our HAED's together! Mine isn't that different from the last time, because I've been away in Egypt. Luckily Eel's been back in Malaysia and she hasn't been doing too much of hers either, so hopefully it's not too big a gap between the two of us. To liven up the blog, I'll post up a couple of pictures we took in Egypt.

The first is a typical touristy shot, that lots of people like to do. That's my friend on the left, and me on the right. We almost got conned there, the taxi driver wanted to drop us off at the alternate entrance, where we would have to pay for a camel / horse ride just to take us to the pyramids! Luckily we were warned by other backpackers that this might happen, so we insisted that he took us to the proper entrance.

We detoured from Cairo to go to the White Desert, which is 5 hours away by bus, but it was really worth it. It proved to be one of the most memorable parts of the whole trip! We actually stayed overnight in the desert, under the stars, and it was freezing! The temperature dropped to 0 degrees Celcius that night, and we were all huddled under the blankets that they provided, praying for the sun to rise so that it wouldn't be so cold anymore. OK, enough about my stories, this blog isn't about me, but about our stitching! So, here we go with our updates...

sAe: Remarkably, in this picture, we look like we're not dressed at all! Note: We are! It so happened that we were wearing clothes that ended above the knee. :D Mine looks much smaller than Eel's but that's because my cloth count is higher than hers. I don't think that our amount completed is that far off from each other.

EeL: I've been cut off from civilisation, hence needing to use Sae's internet. Its nice that my work looks so much bigger than Sae's but I know its just fake 'bigness'. *Sigh* I really haven't done much HAED at all. Its quite hard to get any done here, mainly because there are 4 kids running around my house these days. I'm so paranoid that my nephews and nieces will mess it up or cut it up or puke on it or anything if they get their hands on it.

I'll do a proper graph and monetary update when I get back to Australia and work. Its quite peaceful not having internet access. Expect some touristy looking photos in my next update!

To all who celebrate, Happy Chinese New Year!