ANGRY...VERY ANGRY!!

3 Bombs went off in Dahab....

Anger wasn't my first response....
First, there was NAUSEA as I first heard about the bombing and got that sinking feeling in my stomach.
Next came CONFUSION as I searched google news and refreshed CNN and BBC every few seconds, finding almost no details about the incident for about 20 minutes.
Then there was PANIC as I rushed to grab my phone and call Luli whose last words to me on Thursday were "We are heading off to Dahab for the holiday."
Next was FEAR as I dialed and dialed to get through to all my friends in Egypt. Almost everyone was somewhere in Sinai because of the long holiday weekend.
RELIEF as I hear voices and see text messages from those who could of (or in some cases should have if it wasn't for a last minute hotel problems) been there.
That left me with LINGERING ANXIETY of the ones who didn't text back, or whose messages aren't showing delivery receipts.
The ongoing FRUSTRATION of the "Sorry, All International Circuits are Busy Now" recording that i keep hearing over and over again as my fingers get sore from trying to get through.

And then, only then, comes the ANGER . Then I start wondering how many times we have to do this. This isn't the first time, and I wish, god how I wish, I could say that I think it will be the last.

They are saying over 100 dead but don't take that number too seriously. They try to hide the Egyptian deaths because they don't want to freak-out tourists with big death tolls. I was in Sharm el Sheikh a week after the last bombings in July. BBC says 60 people died in those attacks, CNN says 86, but my friends who were there said there were over 200-300 dead. Poor egyptian hotel workers are easy deaths to hide. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those who lost friends, loved ones, parents, children in this horrible act...even those who will never get counted in the "death count" ticker on CNN.