Splish splash I was taken a bath
What ever you do or say will be held against you
Now who do you think did this?
We took a trip to Istanbul and it was great! It was a bit harder with Preston, but we managed. There were a lot of different people from all over. We captured a few pictures of some. . . well. . . interesting styles. Boot sandles
Dredlock mullet. This was my favorite
All the streets were rock and the sidewalkes were not any better, so it was hard to push the stroller. It got a beating
Prston was a star in Istanbul. Everyone was stopping us on the streets to see him. Even at the airport the security guards would want to hold him. What is great about this is Eric and I were able to have some meals without him. They would just take him from us and keep him happy while we ate.
Preston was lucky, this man gave him an ice cream cone.
Cute Preston
If you look closely at the menu, you will see a missed spelled word and one that I don't even know what they were trying to spell.
We had a really nice meal on top of a hotel
This is a lot of bread
The view from the top of our hotel
twins
Domabahce Palace. This is the enterence gate into the palace. If you look close at the picture you will see a soldiar standing in the middle. He was standing like a statue. It was crazy.
One of the enterences into the palace.
The palace was big! If I lived in it, I would get lost in my own house. I know we did not even see half of it. A lot of it was closed off for repairs. They would not allow us to take pictures inside. There was a crystal staircase that was in the shape of a double horseshoe. Lots of chandeliers. Also a lot of assembly rooms for different discutions; The Blue room, The Red room, The Pink room. And no the room was not that color. It sits right along the shore line so people could enter the palace by boat right into the ceremonial hall that was beautiful. A masive chandelier hung in the center from the big domb ceiling. It was designed to hold 2,500 people, so that tells you how big it was.
A fountain in the garden
We saw a kitty on the grounds and Preston was curious.
Hagia Sophia
This was incredible! The pictures do not give it justice. Right when we entered the HUGE doors, the only word we could use was WOW. I wish that we got a good picture of the ceiling because it was awsome! The pictures just did not turn out of that.
All of the floors and most of the walls were made of marble. When they were restoring Hagia Sophia, they found a lot of mosaic art that had been covered up when it was not used as a moaque as time went by.
(If only the guard wasn't there)
We came out of Hagia Sophia and found this cat sleeping away.
Inside of the Blue Mosque. All of the women that go inside have to cover their arms and head. There were LOTS of people inside and LOTS trying to get in.
The ceiling of the mosque. (It's bigger in person)
The Blue Mosque
Entering into the walls of the blue mosque. It reminded me a lot of the temple grounds.
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