Paul got in late Saturday night and after some taxi shenanigans we made our way over to the nice little Cosmopolitan Park Hotel. The two brothers who own the place were super nice and spoke adorable broken English. We were really boring on Sunday, since it rained heavily for most of the afternoon. We managed to venture out to Ortakoy for the evening, where we had a nice meal and enjoyed a very crazy dessert. Ortakoy is populated by little stands selling waffles, with a wide selection of toppings. Ours had sprinkles, chocolate, caramel, and hazelnuts.
It was delicious and overwhelmingly sweet.
We spent Monday afternoon hanging out around the old city tourist sites, taking the obligatory Blue Mosque and Aya Sofya pictures:
D'AWWW:
We went up to my University to meet the labmates and take in the awesome views of the Bosphorus:
In the evening we went to my house to meet my host family and enjoy a big home-cooked meal. We had a confusing mix of languages at the table: I would speak English with Paul, Paul would speak Spanish with Deniz (host brother), and Deniz would speak Turkish with his mother. Fun times!
That's all for this post. The next part will get into the real meat of our vacation: our trip down to the coast to see Efes and Kuşadası.
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