Traveling With an Uptight Hubby

Traveling with an uptight hubby

While I was married I travel a lot. With, and without my uptight hubby. Am I being mean calling him that? Actually I’m being very kind! But, of course I’ll be putting a dorky spin on it all! We start our trip with a stay in Rome

ROME

When we got married, my uptight hubby promised we would go to Egypt for a belated honeymoon. After five years I knew it wasn’t going to happen unless I did something. So I started saving money till I had most of the money for the trip. At that point he couldn’t say no again. So we planned the trip with a 3-day stop over in Rome.

Now uptight hubby was the nervous type, and every thing had to be planned to the second. Me on the other hand wanted to just throw things into a suitcase and go! After much micro management we left for our trip.

The flight to the East coast was uneventful. Then, a church group on their way Rome got on the plane. The leader of the group sat in front of me. This person had a vulgar mouth and thought it was funny to bounce his chair so it was impossible for me to have my dinner. Now, uptight hubby did nothing I had to call the fight attendant to complain. But that didn’t help much. It was an over night flight so one this guy fell asleep all was well.

Till the morning. I went to use the restroom to freshen up, and it was full of perfume, from others. I’m allergic, so I went back to my seat. I told uptight hubby what happened. With in a minute a spray of cologne came from over the seat in front of me as the jerk laughed.
Again uptight hubby did nothing.

Don’t worry I’m leading to something here people!!!

We got to Rome right before Palm Sunday. There wasn’t the housing for the cardinals that are there now, so they had to stay in hotels like anyone else. At our hotel was a very nice Cardinal from Ethiopia. He was very pleasant and was asking me my nationality.
We had a nice chat and I told him of the rude man on the plane. Then uptight hubby made me leave, upset I was talking to him for so long.

Well that afternoon we were at the Vatican. We had taken a tour and were wandering around when we say the rude man from the plane. HE WAS A PREIST!!! He stood there smiling smugly at me and before I could stop myself I told him, ‘I don’t care you’re still an a**.’ Well the Cardinal was there to and the last I saw of the men the Cardinal was calling him a very bad man.

EGYPT

When we got to Egypt It was night. The city was alive with light. The next day we found we didn’t have the right plug adapter. So we went down the street to little shop. The people there spoke English and quickly got us our adapter. When ask how much it was the man said 1 pound. But uptight hubby didn’t understand him. After repeating it several times the other men there started to join in telling the price. I understood from the very start, but uptight hubby wouldn’t listen to me. Finally they wrote it down for him. I was laughing by this time, as were the men. Big mistake, on my part. I had to hear about it the rest of the day.

Later that day we joined the tour group we were with, everyone was very pleasant and I should have been fun. Uptight hubby didn’t like attention drawn to us, and it wasn’t my fault that I look Egyptian. I got a lot of attention from the guards and other people that argued that I was Egyptian. You would think since our group got to go into closed part of temples because of me he would be happy. Nope, I just got yelled at.

I was invited to join a wedding party when I told them the father of the bride looked like my dad. That was in Alexandria. Between Luxor and Aswan we got to visit some off limit place because the guards let me in. At dendara a Bedouin woman reminded me of my grandmother, when I told her this she kissed me and in less then a minute I was dressed like a Bedouin!


NILE CRUISE

Part of the trip was a 5-day cruise on the Nile. Starting in Luxor. We had an over night stay there so we took a walk along the Nile. I was so lovely. As we walked we came upon a group of young Egyptian men. They look at us and rushed up to us, grabbing me away from uptight hubby. One held uptight hubby, while the others gathered around me. Then they started taking turns having their picture taken with me! Then they let uptight hubby go and had him take a group picture with me in the middle. I found it funny, but not uptight hubby!

On the ship all the splendor of Egypt could be seen from the window of our room and even more from the deck! The crew of the Set III was very funny and friendly. They started making special dishes for me. Egyptian foods. When the other passengers asked why I was getting special treatment, they were told, that their lady was on a special diet! And they should go back to eating their donkey! It wasn’t donkey but they liked to tell people it was.

They had seen uptight hubby make me cry and we were coming to the temple of Kom Ombo. This is the temple to the crocodile god. Some of the crew went to uptight hubby and told him to be nice to their lady, or they would feed him to the crocodiles. That scared him.
He believed they would!

At the end of the cruise the crew lined up to kiss me goodbye. Then they again told uptight hubby, ‘ be nice to our lady.’ Our tour guide and the rest of the group were tried of uptight hubby by now as well. They to wanted to feed him to the crocodiles.

KHAN EL KHALILI BAAZAR

The Khan el Khalili bazaar is Egypt oldest bazaar. The aroma of spices, teas, perfumes and much more, fill the air. The sounds of vendors and customers haggling over the prices rang through you ears.

Our tour group was left there for the balance of the day. Three couples I got along well, with, were shopping together. We decided to make a bet. We choose a set of three brass pyramids and one vendor we all would go to. Who ever got the lowest price won. At the time an Egyptian pound was worth 40 cents American. We would be the last to go. Everyone went and came back thinking they had gotten the best deal. The lowest that came back was 4 pounds. So $1.60, was very cheap. When it was our turn I was already to haggle with the vendor. We walked up to the shop and looked around. I then asked how much for the pyramids. The man looked at me, then uptight hubby, then back to me. ‘For you on pound! You are Egyptian yes?’ I replied yes and left with my little pyramids and a couple of scarab beads he gave me as a gift.

Later the other couples decided to go back to the hotel, we had only seen a small part of the bazaar, so we went on deeper in to its streets and ally ways. At almost every shop we stopped at the shopkeepers invited us in for tea. The final shop we went to I don’t even remember what uptight hubby was looking for. The shopkeeper invited us into the back of the store. The up stairs through their living areas. Finally, we were in a strange lime green room that I knew I wanted out of. Then he started trying to kiss me! Uptight hubby just stood there! This man was getting more and more aggressive, and I was getting mad at him and uptight hubby. Finally the man started trying to buy me from uptight hubby, as he tried to push me into a closet or small room! I was so mad by then I hit the man as hard as I could, grabbed uptight hubby by the arm and lead him down the stairs. The last I hear the man say, ‘you are lucky she has spirit.’

We didn’t talk until we were in the cab back to our hotel. Why did you just stand there? I asked.

‘I knew you could take care of yourself. And was afraid I would become fish bait in the Nile. Also I didn’t know how to get out of there. ‘

‘So it was okay for some man to grope and kiss your wife and try to lock her in a closet?’ I was so mad, and this time I couldn’t turn it around on me!

That was our last day in Cairo. We left Egypt the next morning…