Izmir Visit

Last weekend, we took a trip with a Photo Hunters Group here on base.  We went to places like Ephesus, Virgin Mary’s House, Priene, Miletos, Didyma’s Temple of Apollo, Pamukkale, Hierapolis, and Kusadasi. WE.HAD.A.BLAST!!!! A trip like this was all I needed to remind me why, exactly, I moved here to Turkey (minus the obvious reason of NOT being seperated from my husband for the next 15 months!) I was telling J-Twice in the middle of our trip that I was always kind of jealous of people's pictures from different places in the world, and now I get to be that person in those pictures, visiting those places.  What a great experience.  

On our way to the airport!

Temple of Apollo

Virgin Mary's House

Ephesus

Pamukkale-Hot Springs
These are just a few pictures we took, I think we took over 600!!  It was awesome to be able to climb through the ruins and see all kinds of history.
 The only thing we weren't huge fans of, was the food we were offered! Ha Ha! Breakfast and Dinner was included in our trip, and it was hotel food so it wasn't the best but it was something!!! For breakfast our choices were bread, cheese, some kind of meat, hard boiled eggs,cucumbers, tomatos, olives...the first morning that was okay, but the next 2 mornings we weren't too fond of it! LOL Thankfully, our second morning we had found a Starbucks, so J-Twice and I had that!! :) The way to this girl's heart! Lunch our first day-we were on our own for and we found a cute little restaurant to enjoy (and it was prob. the best meal we had all weekend!!) I ordered what they call meatballs (and mom asked if I knew what kind of meat it was-NO, and I prob. prefer not to find out!) and J-Twice ordered Doner..which is a specialty here. (and I was trying to put the pictures up, but this thing doesn't want to work with me!) The pictures are on my Facebook too, if you are friends with me! :)

Where we had lunch!

We are already looking forward to our next opportunity to travel, so stayed tuned to see where our adventures take us!