Addendum

I found this picture of the actual hand-shaking on Jessie's friend's Facebook page.
Jess has no recollection of it, but I'm pretty sure he's telling her to work hard in school and always obey her parents (and there may have been mention of bringing her mother bon-bons and fanning her with palm fronds, but I could be wrong).

So what did you do today?

Want to hear about what Jessica did? Well then I'll tell you.

Not much, really. She just went here:
And shook hands with this guy:
Yes, really. There was a little "meet and greet" with some American citizens at the pyramids after his speech in Cairo today, and Jessica's friend's family invited her to go with them.

Here he is flying in (and seriously, why didn't I think of this as a way to get out of having to deal with Cairo traffic?):
And chatting with the Ambassador:
And talking to the crowd:
And working said crowd:

You can kinda see the side of his neck in the middle of the picture there. Honest.

Last night she got to go with her friend and her mom to the embassy to check out the presidential motorcade.

Here she is with his limo:
Did you know this is a magnet? I didn't.
And with her buddy:
All in all, Jess said today was long, hot and pretty boring, but it certainly adds a unique item to her list of Cool Stuff I Did This Year!