"If you don't watch it Ted, I will stick my foot in your toe hole." -Mika

Poor Ted, his shoes are falling apart. Mika is threatening to rip them to shreds for who knows what reason. I think if must have been one of those had to be there things, but it was really funny at the time. I forgot to tell you some stuff yesterday. Like the time that Mika spilled half of the restaurant's chili flakes all over the table. Or the time that I didn't understand the Turkish man and made a fool out of my self, but Mika and Ted got a good laugh. Anyways, it was fun.

Today we went to the two places I was most excited about. Hagia/Aya Sofia and the Blue Mosque. Aya Sofia was by far my favorite place of Istanbul so far. I'm pretty sure nothing else will be able to compare. The most important church of the Byzantine Empire, taken over by the Ottomans and turned into a mosque, then a museum by Ataturk. It was all of my favorite topics rolled into one building. It was a little bit boring on the outside, but the inside was absolutely fabulous.

We also spent a lot of our day sitting in a park watching the corn man sell his corn wares and listening to live music. We saw a man with a silver suit (interesting), a mom feeding her baby w/o a spoon, a small child that crushed a bush by sitting on it, and a cute old couple holding hands. Asian tourists take lots of awkward pictures. European women seem to not be able to dress themselves appropriately for the culture or the age. I have learned a lot today.

Now Ted and I are watching cats fight over trash and then get chased by a dog. It is really fun. but I think I need to sleep. Tomorrow we are going shopping! We learned the numbers in Turkish so we can be cool bargainers. I'm sure I have forgotten lots, but I am sleepy. Happy Tuesday!