Moses was a trooper

Hello to all from a hard tile floor in a bungaloo on the banks of the Red Sea.  

So yesterday I was tricked into hiking up the Sini.  For those of you who don't know its this mountain that supposably is the same mountain that Moses walked up to talk to God (in a burning bush) and got the Ten Commandments.  I am positive that I'm spelling "Sini" wrong and so if you wikipedia it then I would fiddle around with the spelling first.  Anyways back to the part where I was cruelly tricked.  So my teacher, whom we call "Dill" (due to the fact that that is indeed his real name), told us we were going on this little hike and that it wasn't too bad...there was some stairs at the end that were kinda hard, but no big deal.  He mentioned something about 2.5 hours...and we were all like 'okay cool lets walk up this mountain'.  So we get to this place that could be mistaken for Mars.  In fact I would not be surprised if NASA has never sent a little Robot to Mars...they've just taken some pictures of the Sini peninsula and said it was Mars.  There is NOTHING here...just some huge mountains that are rocky and there is more sand then I have ever seen in my life and I strongly considered the chances of survival if I were ever stranded here and the answer I can up with was 8 minutes and 37 seconds before the Bedouin would kill me.  Because our tour guide, Ahmed, was quite happy to tell us all that for the Bedouin killing was "no problem".  great.  Anyways so i'm in this desolate wasteland and I go up to the Saint Katherine Monastery and see the Burning Bush (which was not burning and no I did not see God) BUT I also saw this room full of skulls and bones...belonging to all the priests who had died at the monastery since it was built in the 2nd century. creepy.  Then we went on this so called "hike".  We start off and Dill was like "this is the easy part" and we are walking and walking and its dusty and the path is covered in camel urine/poop and for every breath I take i'm pretty sure half is dust and half is camel poop that has turned into dust.  We are still walking...walking...walking...oh and then I try and walk past this group of camels, but one of the camels hates me for some reason....probably because I smelt like camel crap and slowly/fastly tries to shove me off this cliff so I duck under the rope and now i'm in between two camels and then they both move towards me...its like lets squash this stupid girl between our smelly flee infested bodies.  I got away with no flees...that I know of.  So we are still walking.  And its hard...and sandy....and there are these Bedouin peoples asking us if we want some hot chocolates or hot tea.  umm no.  So after 2 hours...it turns out this trip was 2.5 hours ONE WAY (if you had prepared for it months in advance with workouts that would also benefit a person preparing for a climb up Mt. Everest)...anyways its been 2 hours and we get to the stairs.  When I think of stairs I think of uniform height and width possibly with a railing.  There was none of the above.  These were rocks 3 feet high and made you gasping for breath with each one.  There was this nice bedouin guy at the bottom that was like "just 700 steps and you are to the top!"  I wanted to throw him off the cliff.  So we climb and climb and my legs are shaking and I can't breath and I feel dizzy and every 10 steps we have to take a break and we run out of water and I hate my life.  We finally get to the top and I swear i'm never going back down as I collapse on this rock.  It was very anti-climatic.  There was this church that was bolted shut...it was very small...belonged to the monastary down below.  And it was freezing.  We were so high up that even in the hottest area of the earth it was freezing.  I ate my Special K Bar and tried to think about the Ten Commandments...but the only one I could remember was "Thou Shalt Not Covet" and I was definitly coveting all those people that had jackets...those on the bottom...those that were sleeping...basically every person on earth that was not on this mountain.  We then came back down.  If any of you reading this ever travel to Egypt I would definitly recommend this tourist destination.