Today was a pretty lazy day.
It was a holiday and I thought we were going to town but we woke up ate
breakfast and went back to bed. It was
so hot we had the AC on all the time. We
woke up early afternoon.
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| Playing with Ege and his other Ananne (gma) |
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| Ege and Deniz |
Halil took me on a walk to the cami to show me some flowers –
they were AMAZING!! Then he proceeded to
take us on a tour of the neighborhood and show us the different fruit trees and
flowers and plants. He named them in
Turkish and when I knew them in English I would add a name to the list. We saw pomogranites bursting open and tasted
them. We saw green Oranges that grown in
perfect spheres! We saw lemon trees and
even saw two little green lemons on one.
HUGE grape fruits, everything needs a couple more months before they are
all ready to eat. He showed us some fig
trees and then we found a fig tree and he picked one for me to eat!! So in two days, I went from never having seen
a fig before and seeing one in a store to eating one straight from the
tree!
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| Looking at pictures of my nieces and nephews |
Suha and I kept walking while Halil went home to help
Suheyla get ready for company. Baris and
Deniz were coming over with Ege and Deniz’s parents. We had tea and cookies with dried fig, lemon
zest, cinnamon and walnuts in them, plus borek and left over sweet ekmek. It was a lovely night! We played with all the puzzle gifts I
brought. The block puzzle has been a
favorite frustration for everyone. It is
fun to watch them pick it up and try at different times. Sometimes they help each other. Mostly they bring it to me and I do it for
them. Last night Deniz was the first to
do it on her own!! We all cheered and Ege squealed the loudest and
longest. Tomorrow morning we are going
to the sea early in the morning again.
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