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Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:14:04 +0200

Our youngest daughter asked us to make sure that we got lots of pictures of the two of us on our trip to Australia/NZ, so we thought this would be a fun one to have. It was taken by the photographer from the boat that took us out to the reef. The water there was the warmest I have ever snorkeled in, I was able to swim most of the time we were anchored at that spot-only coming in because they were serving lunch! A huge fish named Wally was hanging around the boat-Ed got to pet him, bu

Valentine’s Day at Palisades

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:49:38 +0200

When planning my very short trip home, I asked the girls where we should go for Valentine’s Day, as Ed wanted to “treat” his girls to something special. Tamber said that the swanky restaurant where we kept our boat, Palisades, had a great “Happy Hour” special on both drinks and food, so we decided to go there. Beforehand, we met up with our dear friend Vera, at a local Starbuck’s-don’t we all look festive? (see below) Catching up with friends is always precious... We stayed a bit longer tha

The First Turkish Air Gun Silhouette Shoot

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:32:59 +0200

Silhouette shooting was one of the things that Ed and I both enjoyed immensely when we were shooting .22’s. This is where you get to knock over cute little metal animals-it is very satisfying to see them fall when you are on target! (They range in size with the smallest being closest; chickens, turkeys, pigs and rams.) Ed decided that this would be a fun addition to the air gun shoots, so found patterns online, and had them made in town. His welder friend in Konya is responsible for the fanta

A Surprising Transfer....

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:34:33 +0200

I booked our tickets to Cyprus online, without any idea of where our intermediate stopover was. I vaguely thought it might be a small airport outside of Istanbul, but never checked on a map. All I knew was that it was a place called Hatay-but since that could have been the name of the airport, I didn’t even try to look it up. We were flying on Turkish Airlines’ partner airline, Anadolu (like Alaska’s Horizon-it flies to the smaller airports). When we arrived in Hatay, and we looked at th

Another Proof of the Differences....

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:55:30 +0200

On our last trip to Konya, Zeynep surprised us with the above. The flowers are roses, so there are rose petals in the water. My first thoughts when I saw this were, “How sweet of her! Mmmm, it smells great-how luxurious is this?” I was looking forward to showing it to Ed when he came home, thinking that he would also appreciate what Zeynep did. This was his response, however, “What a mess, how are we going to clean that up? How does she expect us to take a shower with all that in there