Thursday was the Egypt vs Algeria soccer game. This was quite a big game for Egypt and I spent the evening walking around downtown. Cairo is a rather bustling city with lots of traffic, people and noise. It was quite amazing how the city pretty much came to a halt during the match. Everywhere you looked, every alley, open space, restaurant or store had a TV and a crowd huddled around to watch the match.
Well Egypt won and the celebration spilled into the streets and continued well into the night. I was luck to be right smack in the middle of it all. Had I not known what was going on I would have thought that this was a riot or protest but it was the country united in sheer crazy happiness for their home team.
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