Same script, different cast

Hello Egypt, you sexy thing!

Waking up and stretching in this luxurious bed feels simply amazing after twenty hours of traveling, I phoned Marshall and briefly said Hi to Violet before collapsing into the huge comfortable bed, I loved sharing a bed with Marshall but there's definitely something about having a bed to yourself and star fishing across the width of it.
Although I missed his warm body all over me already.

As if he can hear me thinking about him I receive a text message from him six hours ahead in Detroit

“Morning baby,  send me a photo please?”

I laugh at him,  he doesn't specify what kind of photo he wants so I snap one quickly and send it,  it'll take him an hour or so to figure out how to open it anyway so I get up and open my balcony doors,  the heat hits me like a fucking furnace blowing in my face and takes my breath away,  coming from snowy Detroit to this big ball of fire is a shock to my system, I fear my internal body thermometer may never return to normal.

From my balcony in Luxor I can see the river Nile flowing gently past and the flat bottomed river cruise boats winding their way slowly down the Nile,  the hotel pool directly beneath me and on the other side of the river, Palm tree's so green it's like I've never seen them before,  there's children laughing and bathing in the river and I'm in love with it all already.

I'm interrupted from my morning love fest by someone hammering on my door and opening it the ball of energy that is Violet jumps on me, screaming with delight and she looks fantastic, London has obviously agreed with her

“Annie, I'm so excited to see you and go exploring together, I've got us a flight booked this afternoon to spend the night and tomorrow in Cairo then back here, pack an overnight night bag babe”

she slaps my ass sharply and makes me laugh as she's throws herself on my bed watching me unpack my backpack and filling me in on her time in London

“What are we doing in Cairo?”

I ask as I rummage through my bag my hand landing on something I know I didn't pack, pulling out two envelopes I'm momentarily confused, one is addressed to me and the other addressed to Violet, I recognise Marshall's capitalised scrawl and smile.

“We're going to some light show at the Pyramids, and then tomorrow the Egyptian museum and inside the Pyramids, I can't wait!”

“Here!”

I hold out her envelope and she takes it, looking at me with her eyebrows raised, mine has a date on the back of the envelope, ten days away so I carefully put it back in the bottom of my backpack and turn back to watch Vi open hers and she reads it smiling, sitting down I wait patiently to see if she'll share its contents with me and I watch her face as she reads, it’s long whatever it is.

“Let me see"

she asks me quietly after she finishes and reaches  out for my hand, she studies my engagement ring

“Wow! It's fucking huge! Congratulations Annie, that man loves you too death"

she exclaims gripping my ring finger and then letting go and folding her letter up she leaves the room telling me to be ready in an hour.
My phone notifies me of a text message and I see it's from Marshall just saying

“Beautiful xx"

Later that evening Vi and I are in the honeymoon suite at the Meridien in Cairo tucked up in bed together laughing about the disastrous light and sound show we'd seen, we'd giggled like school children through the whole thing and been asked to leave ten minutes in and ended up in bed drinking wine because my body clock was on another continent and I couldn't sleep.