My friends Michelle and Cassie and I booked a trip with the Cruise Lady (LDS tour group - I recommend it!). We started in Italy (Venice), then hit up Egypt (Alexandria and Cairo), Israel (Jerusalem, Capernum, Galilee via Haifa & Ashdod), then on to Greece (Athens), Croatia (Split) and then back again to Venice.
We named our trip the "PCS Tour" - for Pyramids, Camels, and Michael Ballam.
For those of you who don't know, Michael is a singer/actor/professor of music. He sang (mostly opera) to us on many occasions on the ship as well as the excursions.
While we were in Egypt I had the song "You Belong to Me" in my head all week (See below for lyrics) and so when our entire tour group was shoved on one bus and we were driving along the Nile and Michael asked for requests for him to sing, I excitedly shouted "You Belong to Me"! 
Michael turned to me and responded that it was not in his repertoire and he didn't know it. I replied, "It's about the Nile!" He then said into the microphone on the bus, "Jenny would now like to sing you a song."
I didn't want to get egged or tossed out, so I let Michael go ahead and sing some operatic number for the bus of people instead.
Egypt was dirty. The Desert was a giant ash tray.
Riding camels was an amazing thrill - they are super tall and getting up and down was incredible! 
The pyramids are HUGE! We didn't get to climb them, but we did go inside of one. It was dark and moist and hot.
You can see the pyramids from the city of Cairo - this was us eating lunch in a restaurant and the pyramids sitting right outside. AMAZING! 
We had two bus loads of people and each bus had a body guard assigned to it - ours stayed ridiculously close to us. This is our security guard and Cassie and I at the sphinx.
The Sphinx's nose has fallen off. 
The Nile is dirty. There is plush land along it, but it becomes desert again before your eyes. You can see the pyramids from the Nile! We even sailed on it in one of these thing-a-ma-jigs (flooka?).
The Lyrics to the song that was stuck in my head for a week:
See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise from a tropic isle
Just remember darling all the while
You belong to me
See the market place in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me
I'd be so alone without you
Maybe you'd be lonesome too in blue
