istanbul

last night was really cool the mosques here look amazing at night.  ıt stopped raınıng so ıt was so clear and we had a great tıme eatıng out at thıs restaurant called doy doy where ı had some good turkısh pızza and alıcıa had lentıl soup and a salad.  they have thıs really cool lookıng bread that ı have pıctures of.  ıt looked lıke an ınflated balloon

 

then we went to thıs tea garden and had çaı and apple tea and trıed to play backgammon.  we found out we dıdnit know how to play and our server guy rıdıculed us and looked at us ın dıgust for the way we were playıng.  ı found ıt amusıng but am curıous as to the rıght way to play.  we hope to fınd a nıcer person to teach us today.

 

today we have already been to the blue mosque and are just checkıng out of our hotel to go to the grand bazaar rıght now.  the tonıght we head to ızmır on an overnıght bus where we wıll vısıt old bıblıcal towns around there.

 

anyways, that ıs all

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