Our trip to Asia

Well, add another continent to the list! The amount of continents I have been to has technically tripled since I left for this trip! Although, I always seem to be just on the outskirts of each!

Asian İstanbul isn't soo different from the European, although it does have garbage cans, roads that are adequate size for the amount of cars driving on them, cars that stop at red lights (!) and crosswalks (!!), a pedestrian street that is CLOSED OFF from cars, and sheep ice-cream (that I couldn't find - maybe it's only around in the summer? I thought I saw some, but it wasn't in Moda??)!! Actually, Asian İstanbul is about as different from European İstanbul as one could ask for! I think we'll go back there to try to find that ice-cream again. Chloe's recommendation and claim that it's her ''favourite ice-cream in the world'' warrants two tries at least! And the ferry only costs 1 Lira (85 cents CDN).

We made a list of all the tings we still want to do before Ariel and Jeremy come for Christmas, and we only have 1 day to spare now, because Will was sick yesterday, and we just hung around the house and read books, thus not completing one of our many tasks. Yesterday, I just went out to the bakery (and forgot my ''wedding ring''! Will thought I would get fake-wife-knapped) and for sahlep with a friend, Mugé, who owns a clothing store beside our apartment building. Sahlep is a drink they have here only in the winter, like eggnog. If only it was eggnog... Anyways, it is made from crushed orchid root, and tastes like rice pudding kinda, but has the consistency of...mucous?...something worse? Anyways, it's a little viscous. But tasty.

So, 16 days until Ariel and Jeremy (or Jeriel as we like to call them - she's gonna kill me now!) arrive, and 15 days worth of things left to do! Tomorrow we are going to one of the palaces, the big one over by Sultanahmet. They only have tours through the harem, so we will have to get up earlyish to ensure a spot. I want to see where the women all lived, not just the men! I guess no reading tomorrow morning :(

Everyday, Will and I talk about home and all of you. We have a lot of time, and no one else will talk to us, so I really do mean ALL of you! We miss you all and are so excited to see you! Being away from home really makes one realize what home is, and how nice it is. Not that I didn't need a break from Victoria and Bay Street specifically (it's not the street so much as what came at the end of it) but I am glad to have this distance from the bad memories I have with so much of Victoria, so that I can really appreciate home again! Peace.