DAY FOUR:
I woke up and my
mom and Seamus were awake. My dad was still asleep. I head down stairs with
Seamus and my mom for breakfast. I get my normal cocoa puffs, egg, orange
juice, and jelly on bread. I would have jelly on toast, but there it no
toaster. My dad comes down to join us. Then he heads his way and we go back to
the hotel room. Seamus and I play around a bit until we get completely annoying
and my mom tells us that we should go to the local grocery store and get some
food. This is true, but even though the hotel room has a mini fridge and a
table, it doesn't allow outside food in the hotel so we had to carry everything
in my mom’s backpack. We could fit everything in but the troublesome bananas,
there were only five bananas that just couldn't fit. So we had to smuggle them
past the guard (I put them behind me and walked past the hotel manager). We
have something to eat, at this point it is like five pm (Turkish time) it is eleven
am US time and we are about to have dinner in Asia. This is not only the first
time I've been in Europe, but the first time I've been in Asia we have a 5
coarse meal consisting of food from all over the country. I like most of them
but some of them I didn't even have to taste to know that they’re blah. After
that we come home (hotel) and have some TV in English after watching Mission
Impossible in Turkish and Spiderman in Turkish. After that we go to bed after a
long day.
DAY SIX:
Today I woke up
exited knowing it was the day that we would be taking a tour boat up the
Bosphorus. I’ve been waiting for this day all week. Anyway I’ll get to the
point. So we got on the boat. We got a good view seat. The ride there was amazing.
The ride back was even better. But while we were there was the best. Seamus is
allergic to anything cats. But today he got off with petting a cat we named
Footins. Footins was one of those orange with white stripes cats, and
it was also really cute. We went up a mountain to a castle. A real, legit, old,
castle. Of course we couldn't go in, but it was cool.
On our way back we saw
lots of stray dogs. In Istanbul you see stray cats, not as many stray dogs. But
on our way back we saw a bunch of stray dogs. And guess what else we found. We
actually saw Footins, the same big, long whiskers, long eyelashes, cute
Footins. At this point Seamus couldn’t pet Footins, but we both
really loved him. We took pictures of him. I made him in Minecraft. I'm going
to draw him. Footins is awesome.
On the boat trip back we had a good seat
where we were but then we got a better view downstairs. Not only was this view
better but we got splashed when a barge past by us. This was the treat of the
ride. It had a great view and all but the splash was the best. Anyway we took
our train home and started doing our own things and that was pretty much it.
DAY SEVEN:
Before I start, I just want to say that I did
not write day five because I was not exactly feeling well. A lot of people were
smoking and it was giving me a major head ache.
Anyway, I woke up
thinking that it would be a normal day. Somewhere in my head I knew that something
was not right, whether it was the fact that my Mom was packing or that none of
the college kids were at breakfast. Then I remembered. Today we were going to
Ankara. At first I thought I was going to Alanya because Ankara and Alanya are
so similar but we were going to Ankara which is another big city in more of a
high desert place. The bus ride there took forever probably because we stopped five
minutes in to the ride and had lunch. I thought right after that we would get
right back onto the new, air-conditioned, fancy, charter bus. No we were taking
a whole tour of that part of the city.
It was hot and sweaty plus you couldn’t even hear the tour guide. AKA it
was not fun.
From there we got back on the bus and the ride went smoothly. By
the time we got there it was late. We got in and I instantly knew that this was
a better hotel. The rooms are much nicer including the view. Seamus and I got
our own room with twin beds. This is the first time Seamus and I have our own
room. That’s probably the easiest day yet. Well, that’s all that happened on
the seventh day.
DAY TEN:
I am skipping yesterday because bot much happened. I mean all that there was was two
bus rides and a plane flight, not much to talk about. Except that there was a
really small airport and I went to the beach. The beach had good waves. Anyway,
today there was more. So I thought that we would have a ten minute walk to the
beach but it turns out that it's like a one minute walk. First thing in the
morning we headed over there and played around. The beach is great. The waves
are great, the sun is great, the water is warm, and over all I just have a
really fun time. We had some fun there then came home for some lunch and school
work. We had a fried egg for a sort of brunch. Then started on some schoolwork.
This is my first day doing actual schoolwork during our trip (dont tell anyone). After that I used the computer a bit then
headed back to the beach. It started
raining after a bit. This is the first time I have been in the ocean while it
was raining. We stayed for a little bit but then we remembered that our clothes
were drying on the balcony and we immediately went back. We had some dinner and
desert then we all took a rest and I started writing about my day. And that’s
pretty much all that happened on our ninth day.
