Mannequins in Alexandria, Egypt

If you came here hoping this posting was about your favorite 80's movie starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall you'll be sadly disappointed. Instead you will be sampling some of the finest fashionable mannequins Egypt has to offer. The streets near Raml station is lined with all your fashion needs from sneakers to niqabs to fake fur to lacy bras sold on a street cart pulled by a donkey. It is all here waiting for you.  

I'm not sure what to say about this one.

They are coming to get you.

Things nightmares are made of.

What Chucky and his bride look like under normal conditions.

Third place award goes to social media fashion.

Brown shirt candidates.

Blue hair is all the rage.

Long neck fashion. The man in the reflection followed me for quite awhile, I felt obligated to buy him lunch but he eventually disappeared. 

The runner up

Spice up your fashion and impress your friends with dangling chilies. 

Skinheads

You can never wear too much blue eye shadow. 

Boys you don't want your daughter dating.

101 uses for a mop

Frat boy fashion 

Makes an excellent Christmas gift.

For those of you who miss the 80's.

And the winner is...

Is this on the Muslim Brotherhood's approved head accessories list?

I've always said that rabbits are a huge selling point.

It is a shame that more people don't cover their faces with fur.

You can have it both ways.

The beehive gone wasp nest.

Life in Egypt during November

November has been a busy month...today we are waiting and watching to see if there will be a Revolution v. 2.0-as usual protests are expected. President Morsi has granted himself more powers thus polarizing Egypt even further. Not everyone is a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood and many people have lost confidence in them. I personally think people have unrealistic expectations as there are no quick fixes for decades of problems. 

Is it called Halloween or fall festival? Many years ago a former board member thought that Halloween was a bit too pagan for his beliefs and changed the title to a more Christian friendly one. My grade 8 advisory class did a wedding booth. I married Pee Wee Herman that evening. 

Slightly politically incorrect. An Egyptian will tell you he is an Arab not African because Africans are black. 

Black swan/white swan

There were plenty of Spidermans

Every child's dream costume-prisoner with tattoos. 

Watch out Glenn Danzig

The senior's haunted house included stolen toys and equipment from kindergarten.

Ideal students

Business casual

Eaten by book

My kids in their natural environment.

The Brits invited us to their annual Nov. 5th/Guy Fawkes Day/Guy Fawkes Night. Everyone has a score card to rate the Guy Fawkes figures that are going to be burned. Participants make the figures often with explosive materials inside. Here is a little history on the event.  Guy Fawkes Night is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.

The showing

Into the fire you go.

What remained

This one had some sparks

About to burst

Our official Halloween party was a week late. I was bacon and Ana was an egg.

Goodness in a glass.

We haven't spent time in Cairo in a couple of years. We need to do this more often.

Protesters on their way to Tahir Square

Egypt's beloved singer Oum Kalthoum has a museum tucked away on Rhoda Island. 

Her most famous song/concept album. You are my life.

On the Nile

Your new hospital

We walked over to Tahir Square to see what was going on...the smell of tear gas and the commotion down the street was enough to make us reconsider. 

We meet a fellow teacher and his friend who wanted to ride on a falouk.

You can go fancy with neon lights and blaring music or soft with sails

We did the soft with sails.

Brewing with Pickell