Enjoy a million pictures from my camera and camera phone of our trip to Turkey. We took a bunch of videos too, but getting just a picture post up took long enough, so don’t be waiting on those.
Our trip started out a little rough with a delay in Salt Lake City of all places. That two hour delay pretty much screwed the rest of our well planned flights and we ended up getting to our final destination, Antayla Turkey, eight hours later than we were suppose to, making it a 25hr total trip. We were SO happy we didn’t have the kids with us at that point because delays and traveling through an entire night was painful enough for two adults.
This is Geoff calling our travel agent in the Paris airport. We ended up being there for six hours and since France is one of our most favorite places, we were excited to take advantage of the extra time and go into the city. It happened to be May Day which is a day of demonstrations throughout Europe. Everyone advised us that it wasn’t a safe time to go out. We were disappointed, but nothing a delicious tarte aux abriocts and an Orangina couldn’t fix.
The first day we were there, it was gray skies, but still nice and warm. Clearly no one else thought it was laying out weather. Good thing, because we were so tired we just slept out there like vagabonds who had never seen the light of day.
Here’s when I discovered that our little hotel was actual an all inclusive resort…with icecream. Probably a total of two people spoke English there, so we never really knew what was going on other than you could eat and drink as much as you wanted.
And there was a mini water park which no one went to except for us.
The front of Cesar’s Temple. It was a really nice hotel right up to the Mediterranean sea.
Did I mention that Air France lost my bags? I have the worst luck. After two days of walking around in Geoff’s Chacos, we finally made it into a little nearby town for some shopping. I came across these beauties and I was sold, literally. The man checking us out told us he sells to “losers” all the time. Thank you sir.
We ate a traditional Turkish Doner in this beautiful square.
Geoff gave a really good presentation about Innovation in Technology at the conference. I’m always so impressed with his presenting and teaching skills as are all those in attendance. The World Conference of Business and Economics was so interesting to be a part of. Educators from literally all over the world were there to learn and present. We met people from places I had only heard of and we both really enjoyed learning more about what life really is like in places like Iran, Malaysia, Estonia, Tunisia, Cyprus (to name a few) outside of what the television tells us. It was heartwarming to be among a group of people so dedicated to the furthering of education and learning.
Leah, your trip looks amazing…and you look gorgeous!…and I love your new shoes. Bummer about May Day in Paris, but you’re right, the apricot tart from Paul is darn good!
so fun! and gorgeous! and… you look to pretty to be on vacation. i look all jet-lagged and frizzy on vacay. no fair:)
can i ask what lens (lenses) you used? these pictures are stellar! we’re headed to rome in august, and i’m debating which lenses to take- the sad part is none of mine i have are wide enough for a “self-portrait” (which i’m sure we’ll take a million of since we’re going solo). thoughts? these turkey pictures are amazing. thanks!
Amanda, thanks for all your kind words. Don’t worry, I reserved the nasty hair for the video portion. I have a slew of lenses that I use, but for self portraits, I use my 16-35mm 2.8f so I can get both of us in and some scenery. Have such a great time in Rome!