Turkey!

  Yeah, we are in Turkey!! We got here on Saturday. The flights went very well (we were quite tired, but all the same, well). After about an hour unpacking and stuff like that, we went exploring. Our hotel is right in the middle of the Old City. It is also right in the middle of a lot of tourist attractions. The people who work in the restaurants really want you to go there. They will, at almost every resturant, ask if you want to go in or if you want a menu to look at. There is also a lot of rugs here. We saw things like the Blue Mosque, AyaSofia, Topkapi Palace, and other thing like that. We fell asleep very well that night.  :)
  Then yesterday we went exploring the town again. We had a better grasp of Istanbul now, so we kind of knew where we wanted to go. (only a little bit though.) Then we went walking around by the water. They had all kinds of things in little street side carts. There were things like popped corn, chestnuts, pretzels, fruit juice, and finally corn. Yes they have corn, they roast it and it smells really good!   After looking around, we (mostly my parents) decided that we would go on a one and a half hour cruise. It was very fun! The boat was a two story one. It cruised around the Bosphorus. The rocking of the boat was very calming. For the first half of the ride, we were on the top part. The second part was in the bottom part, which was inside so it wasn't very noisy in there.
  After that relaxing ride, we went to a restaurant that had really good wraps! They had french fries in them!! I loved it. My dad got pomegranate juice. Wow!! It was kind of sour! Then we rested at the hotel for a while. We were fully charged then, so we went walking near the place we went in the morning. I had a very good supper, chocolate milkshake and a chocolate cookie, yum! My dad had an ice cream cone and a cinnamon-brownie sort of thing. We didn't have the healthiest supper ever. :)  The best part of the day was that we didn't get lost. Yeah!!

TURKISH WORD OF THE DAY: Dur
Dur means Stop or halt.
Sentence:
The police told Brian "dur!" when he tried to climb the Blue Mosque to take a picture (just kidding!! We would never do that!).