On Wednesday Kelly and I wanted to go somewhere close but new and exciting, some place we could explore. We decided to go to this little Traditional Turkish area not far from where we live. We have passed it every time on the bus and wanted to go since it is only a few bus stops away from where we live. It was great seeing a bit of the real Turkey and not just the upper class version. The houses were run down with clothes lines strung fro each window. I was in love. I am so mad i dont have any pictures to put on now but as soon as i can get them from Kellys camera i will put them on. If not you can always look on facebook since most of them are on there.
We were taking pictures of everything! There was this one corner where we got a picture of some houses and four Turkish people just doing their thing. One of the Ladys in the picture we just took saw us and started talking to us in Turkish. We went over and she asked for a photo by her roses. She invited us for Turkish Kave (coffee) and drinks since i dont drink coffee. She was with her daughter in the garden and we followed her as she went inside and brought out two chairs for Kelly and I. We spent a good amount of time trying to communicate. It was fun and they were thrilled at the little bit of Turkish i have picked up. We made sure to get pictures with them so i will post them later. or you can stalk me on facebook.
Her daughters daughter who we think is 6 if we communicated correctly came and then went and brought us all a beautiful rose! it was a brilliant pink gorgeous garden rose. i was so cute! We had to leave and they asked us to come back which we were planning to already! Our plan is to print out some of our photos with them and put them in frames and come back with another gift of some sort. I am excited to see them again.
We went to lunch at this amazing place! We were craving Kofte (Turkish grilled balls of meat) and we had seen this sign for it by the bus stop so we went back and I expected this little hold in the wall crap place since it was barely visible and the sign was a little getto but it was so amazing! The walls were completely covered with pictures of Atatürk and it was clean and nice. Thats the nice thing about Turkey...most things are surprisingly clean for what it is. We got a yummy salad and they gave us this tub of bread, and we got 4 kofte the size of our fist!!!! it was amazing!!!! and the people were of course super nice. I was so stuffed after :)
Kelly still wanted to find a sweet shop and get some baklava and whatnot so we went walking around again. Everywhere we went and looked is was basically all men. I dont know what it is but it was like the men went out to socialize instead of working and the women were at home doing the house work. anyways as we were walking through the song Stop and Stare by One Republic since all the men did that as we passed and then continued to talk after we passed. its so awkward. Turkish people are not ashamed to flat out stare at you or flirt with you. It was an awesome day. I cannot wait to find that family again and go back to one of my new favorite places!
well take care. i have much more to write but it will have to wait. so many adventures this week! :)
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