Our First Days In Eastern Europe

After a long day of travel for each of us, our family was reunited on April 29th in Istanbul, Turkey. Well most of our family. Jessica is back home working at the dealership to earn some money for college.

We spent 3 days in Istanbul where we walked the Roman Road, visited all the must see sights in the old town. The families favorite was the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, really amazing! We shopped in the crazy Grand Bazzar and the Spice Market and had hundreds of offers to drink tea and buy rugs :) We spent our final day took a boat ride up and down the Bosphorus which seperates Asia from Europe. We ate our fair share of Turkish Delight and amazing baklava. We capped off our last evening by eating at the Orient Express resturant before catching our overnight train (which was definatly NOT the Orient Express) to Bulgaria. We will be spending the next few days in Bulgeria and Romania and traveling on trains!!