Thursday, November 13 Turkcell Extra

Today was another half-day for conferences, so I took the kids in a cab to Panora Mall. I've never felt so glad to be in a Gap store. We enjoyed our Burger King lunches and started our collection of Simpsons figures (are they running the same promo in the US?), and had a bit of a shopping spree at Kipa. This is the mall that Asli and her husband took me to on the second day we were here; the bottom floor is Kipa, a Target/Walmart/Kmart type store that has more and different things than the local stores I can walk to easily. So we got some good stuff and supported the local economy a bit more, then piled it all into a taxi trunk for the journey home.

We went to Panora so I could go to a Turkcell Extra store to have one of our US cell phones switched over to working in Turkey. Things were going great, I felt like a pro, until they flipped through my passport and saw that I had been here longer than 30 days. Missed the window that we didn't even know about. Oh well, I'm sure it won't be the last one we learn about.