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.