Tuesday, January 27

The girls went to school and Brian, Aeden, and I went off with Mustafa for some errands. We went to the travel agent's office to make our payments for rental car and hotel for our trip (they had arranged to have an English speaker there for us at 11:00 this morning, then Mustafa ended up being with us, so we had 4 different people working on our arragements and making sure we understood everything). Hectic, but nice to have the attention. Then Mustafa drove us to the rental car office so Brian could see where he'd be coming to pick up the car later. We went to Praktiker, the largest hardware store we've found, in search of PVC pipes and joints for a project Brian is working on at school and struck out at the lack of selection of joints. The scavenger hunt has begun!

While Brian went to pick up the rental car in the evening the kids and I packed our bags and got ready to leave first thing in the morning. Pretty easy to pack for 4 days when we only have room in the car for a little bit...and we don't have that much too choose from here anyway!