It won't let me title this post and I d k why. This is a short post. They sell chocolate flavored toothpaste here. There's also this one drink I have found here that I hope to never encounter again in my life. I asked the mom who I'm staying with what it was (this was before I had it). She said yogurt mixed with water. I thought alright, not bad maybe like a milkshake. No, by yogurt she meant sour cream. And Turkish sourcream puts the sour in sourcream. Seriously, it's watered down sour cream. And everyone drinks it! Not ftw.

Well right now Eser and Nilgun are at the Shakira concert.

And the other night I had an interesting dream. I was in heaven, and played a round of pool, and then for some reason I played a duet on the piano with God. I have no idea what it means, but I think it might have to do with the fact that I've been playing heart and soul alot lately. There's a reason behind that, but don't worry about it.

Well, I leave for home in a few days, I'm pretty excited. I'm still probably going to put a few more blogs on here though, there's lots to tell that I have written down, and will look back up and then type it up.

I can't wait till I'm at home and have had time to sort through all my pics and have fast internet again. Then I'll put up an album. It'll probably be on picassa but maybe flickr. We'll see.

Another day another post

That title was a lie. It has been more than one day since the last post. I tricked you all.

Anyways though, yesterday was quite an experience for me. In the morning we went to Hagia Sophia (which I have wanted to for a very long time, pretty much ever since we learned about it in Gala's class). The Hagia Sophia was a church/mosque. It started out as a church, and was later converted. It's interesting to see both Christian and Muslim themes rolled into one. It's history is also fascinating, of course I like history, and most of you reading this probably do not, thus I will stop. Wiki it if you want more. We also saw the Blue Mosque that morning. The blue mosque is a massive mosque whose interior is covered in blue tiles. It's pretty cool.

After that we went to the Grand Bazaar. This place is crazy. Hookahs everywhere. But not just hookahs, you can find pretty much anything in either that or the Egyptian bazaar. It's weird, after visiting this place, you realize just how inflated the cost of living is in the U.S. at least for some things. Clothing for example. For the cost of a designer pair of jeans in the U.S., you could outfit much of your wardrobe here in Istanbul.

Another place that we went to was the Byzantine Cistern. That might sound lame, but what it is is this wicked old underground cavern/plaza. The lighting was really cool, and this whole thing is filled with water. Sounds lame, but I got some decent pics. Speaking of pictures, I took over 200 again yesterday, which brings the total up to somewhere around 1200 or so on this trip I think.

Well, it's really hot outside, and I just stained a fence, so I think I'll go for a swim.