Friday, April 20

Turkey Pictures!!

Flowers and Blue Mosque 3


The Blue Mosque. There were tulips everywhere.


Blue Mosque 5


Inside the Blue Mosque.


Blue Mosque


The Blue Mosque


Jason and Sarah and Blue Mosque


Jason and Sarah


Tulip Festival Band


These guys were really funny. They played "Que Sera Sera", "Satisfaction (Can't Get No)", and a wired mix of other songs.


Aya Sofia from Blue Mosque 2


The Aya Sofia


Aya Sofia 6


Inside Aya Sofia


Whirling Dervishes


Whilring Dervishes at the Sufi Monestary


Bospherous Cruise 8


Bospherous Cruise. (Although my friend April pointed out that it's not really a cruise if they don't give you free food. So really, the Bospherous Boat Ride.)


Harem 9


The Harem in Topkapi Palace


Topkopi 6


Topkapi Palace


Sarah and Nana at topkopi


Sarah and Nana at Topkapi


Suleymaniye Mosque 5


Suleymaniye Mosque


Suleymaniye Mosque 6


Inside the Suleymaniye Mosque


Mosaic Museum 10


From the Mosaic Museum. Notice the blood dripping off the antelope.


Istiklal 3


Istaklal. An estimated one million people walk this street every day. We were two of them every day were were in Istanbul. Because we're that cool.


View from Laurie's 3


The view we woke up to every day. Topkapi is on the left, then the Aya Sofia and the Blue Mosque. The waterway is the Golden Horn and behind the monuments you can kind of see the Sea of Marmara.


and there's more pictures from turkey, as well as a bunch from christmas break and new ones of the kids in our photo album. check them out.

1 comment:

Hannah said...

thanks for putting these pics up on your blog - going to check the photo album now