Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Turkey

So today I spent the day in Kusadasi, Turkey. It was my one stop in Asia. 5% of Turkey is in Europe, but Kusadasi is not. We started out the day heading up the mountain to the House of Virgin Mary at Ephesus. It is a reconstructed house on top of the foundation of the believed original house of the Virgin Mary, where she lived out her life after the death of her Son. The Vatican maintains this site and 3 nuns and 2 priests care for it.

After that, we headed to Ancient Ephesus to see the ruins. The site is thousands of years old but most of the uncovered sections can be attributed to the Roman times.


Celsus Library


Roman Potties


25,000 person Theater

Photo of a photo I bought in Ephesus

Afterwards we went back to Kusadasi and saw a rug demonstration. It was very interesting but I did not buy a rug as they cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. Instead I went to a pub and had some Turkish beer. It was really good, I’ll have to look for it in the states. Carissa and Matt, you guys will have to see if they have it in London.



Well, tomorrow we are at sea all day so I'll be posting a 'life on the ship' blog since I don't touch on that much in these posts. Hope everyone is doing good!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mom, hope you are having fun. The Grand Parental Units are making life tough. They are starving us to death. There is definitely a plus or minus 5 pound weigh change, but it is ok as long as you are having a good time.

Anonymous said...

I'm lovin' your daily posts, Thea... it's like me, Charlie and Colman are on vacation with you! Now wouldn't that be a relaxing trip! You know you want toddlers in your little sea side room-it'll be fun!

Great pics and blogs. Keep up your fun and our day-dreams.

Writinggal said...

It's so weird. You are visiting Turkey and I am writing a story about turkey (the Thanksgiving kind).

Looks like you are having nice weather!