Friday, December 12

Aeden and I set out for Real and Praktiker in Bilkent to finish up Christmas shopping. Everyone was out buying Christmas trees at Praktiker. And even here there would be a couple looking at and choosing trees and decorations, with the woman gesturing, "what do you think?" and the man returning a look of, "do I really care?" Or maybe I'm projecting :-) I think I inadvertently hit the "Black Friday" of Turkish holiday shopping now that the bayram is over and energies can be focused on Christmas (or, more likely, the New Year, which is celebrated much like Christmas with Santa, reindeer, decorated evergreens, gifts, garlands, and all that stuff).