Western Tour

Hello again, 

Sorry it's been almost a month since I've posted, but everything has been really busy around here... So let's get to it. 

We just completed our first Rotary organized trip, which was January 29- Febuary 6. The trip covered cities such as, Pamukkale, Anatolia, Izmir, Bodrum, Fetiye, Kaş, and a few others. We took this medium-sized charter bus and we drove around seeing all these archeology sites, museums, and famous landmarks then stopping at hotels along the way. I'll try and do an over view of the trip otherwise this post would be too long :) 

So the first two days of the trip happened to be Daffne and Luis' birthdays! We bought them little cakes, sang them "Happy Birthday!" on the bus, and finished with the Mexican tradition of smashing the cake on the face of the Birthday person.

Here they are after we smashed the cakes on them! (Daffne's face was a lot worse, but she accidentally cleaned her face before the picture) 

After we woke up on the morning of our second day, we visited the first of many archeology sites. Here are some pictures:

Hana, Julia, and I

Daffne and I

Then, fast forward to the second night we were in Anatolia, Luis and I had a tea party in the hotel. The reason was, since the hotel gives a water heater, bottled water, an tea for free with each room, Luis didn't want to waste the free tea, in Turkish it's çay. So we each had about 6 or 7 glasses of tea before I'd had enough. Such funny memories! In the hotels at night we would all pick a room to go to and we'd talk, drink tea or coffee, and watch turkish movies. I really love this group of exchange students. 

Then another day, we went on a boat tour in Kekova! So beautiful. It looked like one of those places you see in a travel magazine! Here we are tanning on top of the boat:

The next day we took another boat tour, and we got this really cute Americans picture:

Then another time we were visiting the ruins of an old theatre. Gabi asked me to move so she could get her picture taken. I was too lazy to stand up, so I tried to hide the best I could but as you can tell, I still managed to photobomb her picture! Haha

Here is a group picture from a site:

Girl picture from a skii lift type thing we had to take to reach a site we were seeing:

Another girls picture from a theatre in Pamukkale

Group picture at the same theatre 

Group waterfall picture in Anatolia 

Such a great trip! These exchange students are like my family and I am so happy to have them in my life. I really hope I'll be able to go on the second one in May :) 

Maggie