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You want to see the pyramids?, How about the Aswan High Dam? How about the monument to Ramses II at Abu Simbal? The museum they keep Tutankhamun's death mask in?
Go to your local Borders. Or whatever your decently large local bookstore is. Go to the travel section. You will probably find at least one travel book that will tell you how to get from Cairo International Airport by bus, boat, train, taxi, whatever to the pyramids. Or anything else I listed. Assuming that you have a U.S. passport and the bureaucratic paperwork that the U.S. and Egyptian governments require can be handled expeditiously, you could be gawking at the pyramids on September 1st. The info is easily available.

They sell travel books in Egypt, too. What do you want to guess there's one whose title translates into English as "America For Dummies"? Oddly appropriate for these kids, don't you think?

Young men that age have been wandering off from Mom and Pop to explore the world for the last 100,000 years. If you're a creationist, amend that to "since Adam's grandsons started turning 18".

I was worried a bit when the story first broke. But since the kids turned up so quickly and in so easily, I'm not worried any more.

Put yourself in their shoes. The words every kid that age WANTS to say: "Hello, Dad, I screwed up and need a lawyer."