Terrible Tourist

June 24th -

It has been a few days since I ventured out into the heat for more then a walk.  But today we finally decided that an adventure was needed.

We began by bowling.

To me, this is an adventure.

I have only gotten over 100 once in my life.

This is the sad truth.

The bowling here is the same although the balls were not smooth which (I SERIOUSLY BELIEVE) caused them to curve more then they should have.  I mean, how can I throw so many straight down the middle just to have them magically end up in the gutter just before they meet the pins?

Michael won.  He adds a "Woo-Hoo!" to that statement.

At least someone passed the 100 mark...

After bowling we got our favorite drink, lemonade poweraid, and made our way to the sea.

We sat on large rocks and enjoyed it whenever a random wave was able to splash enough to make a slight mist.

There are many people who try to sell things

it becomes quite irritating.

Any time we sit by the sea we are surrounded by women selling roses, complimenting Michaels "rose" (me) and when we say no (yok sal), about 6 times, they always stop and stare and click their tongues at us as if we came there that day planning to dissapoint them by not paying an outrageous amount for a single wilted rose.

This time we had a man (adam) who was selling kleenax...

while we were sitting he pushed himself in between Michael and myself and threw the tissues on my lap.

He apprently didn't realize that this was only going to make us upset.

I really don't understand why it's okay to do such a thing.  Besides, he looked much better fed and dressed then some of the people around him.

Rant over.

We decided to randomly hop on a ferry boat and head to the other side of Izmir, which I have never been to.

How fun!

There wasn't much to see on the other side and Michael's side was obviously nicer but there was a very busy street that was fun to walk down.  We ended up just walking around until we were tired and then we stopped for dinner at KFC... I'm a bad tourist (turist).

Once we were back on our side of Izmir, we stopped an got a soft serve ice cream cone.

Very nice evening over all.

We have begun making plans for a trip, as well!