Saturday, April 18, 2009

Sunday, April 12 Happy Easter!

Easter Bunny surprises--yep, the Easter Bunny found us in Cappadocia! He even brought American candy like M&M's, Reese's Pieces, jelly beans, and Cadbury mini eggs, plus Hannah Montana candy tins and more! What a lucky bunch we are to have such a nice Easter Bunny (thank you Easter Bunny and all those who helped with the importing of special treats!)



Sore legs are setting in for all of us! Carrying Aeden through the underground city proved to be pretty hard on my quads and arms and I'm sore! Rob and Brian went up to Uchisar, the tallest viewpoint in the area. The kids and I napped and watched Avatar and Barney in Turkish on TV for the morning and tried out the shower in our cool suite. A good morning for all!







We had Lunch in Urgup at Cirgan Han and then shopped around downtown Urgup. We showed Rob an ebru painter, stopped in at a carpet shop for the "show" of spinning the silk carpets around to see the color change from the nap of the carpet, Brian found a cool junk shop where the owner told him tales of bartering with farmers for the artifacts and treasures they find in their fields, and we all bought a few souvenirs here and there.




We drove to Sunset Point for the sunset, where one direction is a beautiful sunset on the cliffs and the opposite direction is a picture-perfect view of Mount Argeus, the tallest mountain in Anatolia.





We liked dinner at Somine so much last night that we returned again tonight. Rob and Brian had the Testi Kebap again (with Rob having the honor of breaking open the testi) and I had a Beyti Kebap that was mighty tasty. I have to say that we thought of WAY too many jokes about the special regional dish, the testi kebap (pottery or jug kebap--the meat is cooked with the vegetables sealed in a jug in the oven). Rob and I tasted Efe Raki with dinner...and a tiny sip each is all we needed. The anise flavor of it is just too strong for people who don't like black licorice. And the alcohol afterburn is delayed and then very strong, even from the tiniest of sips from a glass that was cut half and half with water. I can't believe that anyone could toss back a whole bottle in an evening (as Ataturk is reported to have done most nights toward the end of his life). But the best custard dessert we've had in Turkey was served tonight, and Rob tried the Kunefe dessert. Yum!

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