One of the most memorable things about my trip to Egypt (look, now I’ll actually write the whole word since I’m home!), were the bus rides from city to city.

After day one, almost every last one of us had a Seat Buddy as well as a typical place on the bus we sat with said buddy. My favorite Seat Buddy?

Why, Nicholas of course.

Here are some reasons I enjoyed sitting with my Preferred Seat Buddy:

1. Nicholas likes to talk, but he also likes to be quiet. So sometimes we talked, and sometimes we took naps. It was a nice set-up, especially since Nicholas didn’t like to talk as much as I did, therefore offering me the opportunity to get all those words out because, you know, it’s been proven that girls need to talk more than boys.

2. Nicholas let me listen to his iPod and I let him listen to mine.

3. After I realized that I didn’t like more than three songs on Nicholas’ iPod, he let me put one earbud of my own iPod in one ear whilst the other earbud remained in his own ear.

4. Then, Nicholas let me insist on picking the songs we listened to and didn’t complain. Well, until I picked a Céline Dion song and then he was all “WE ARE NOT LISTENING TO THAT!” and I was all “OKAY, BUDDY, YOU JUST DUG YOUR OWN HOLE BECAUSE NOW IT’S GONNA BE FAITH HILL THE WHOLE WAY THERE.”

5. But then, just to spite him, I began playing Christmas songs… SUNG BY FAITH HILL.

So then, he got up from his seat and did the only thing he knew to do.

He said he dropped a water bottle and just had to go down there to fetch it.

Likely story, Seat Buddy. Likely story, indeed.