Family Visit

Finally the weeks ended and Tom and I had 2 days off because my Mom and Sister were coming to visit. Tom and I went to pick them up from the airport. They finally came out of Customs after an hour........without luggage. We went to give the info needed for the airport to deliver the luggage when it arrived and went to catch a cab to the Hotel Karaca. Once at the hotel Claire laid down to sleep while Tom, Mom, and I went for a walk and ended up at a pub and had a drink. We had been invited to a friends house for dinner so we went back to get Claire and headed back into the center fro dinner. It was a fabulous dinner. We had a yougurt based cucumber soup for starters, eggplant with tomato chicken and cheese topping along with a bean salad, green beans, rolled vine leaves, cooked peppers and zuicinni, and bread. It was a great meal and gave Claire and Mom a real sense of what Turkish food is. It was getting late and Mom and Claire decided to retire because they were tired form the flight. Tom and I then met up with our friends from camp and went out on the town for the night.

The next day the luggage finally arrived from the airport and we went out on a tourist tour. We walked around for hours seeing all the sights and ended up at the elevator thing. This elevator was made for people to get form a low road to the high road. We went up to the top and enjoyed the view and had a drink. Then we went back to the hotel for awhile before heading back to space camp. After giving the tour of space camp we went to a vinyard for dinner. The dinner was excelent. I had, for starters, white asparagus with a holandase-cheese sauce. For the main course I had steak emanse with mushrooms. IT WAS EXCELLENT!!!! And then for dessert we shared cheesecake with raspberry sauce topping and a chocolate parfe/mousse. Along with this dinner we had red wine, I forgot what the name was. When th night was saddly over Tom and I got dropped off at space camp while Mom and Claire went back to the hotel. They would be leaving the next day to go to the Greek island of Samos for a week before coming back to see us. I hope they have a great time and I will update the next exciting weekend of FAMILY SHOPPING.