A few cool things, a few funny things..

Cool Things:

So they have these markets here in Turkey that they call Bazaars. Basically, it is a flea market that is on a road that has been closed off. Here at these Bazaars they sell anything from trinkets, stuff they found in their garage, to new clothing, shoes, to fresh grain, fresh tea, to fresh vegetables... etc. You can imagine all that you can find there. I was just in awe of how awesome this place was. I can just imagine how awesome it would be to walk down the street to go get freshly grown vegetables and grains. The crazy part was their cost. 7lbs of Cucumber for 2 lira- or like $.75. It is grown right near that town so it is incredibly cheap!

In order to create this bazaar, they just set up shop and put a tarp or fabric over top of them... Every one is built physically smaller than John or I (if you have met his mom, you would understand this) so the tarps were set really low. haha

Fresh lemons, tomatoes, and hot peppers...

Fresh peaches! SO rich and yummy!

John's cousin Yunis was working the peaches and fresh cherries! Here he is with Benyamin and Nebahat..

More veggies! Tomatoes, cucumber, green beans... Just Fresh veggies everywhere!

Don't these Cherries look Bomb?? And thats fresh Garlic next to it on the right.

Funny Things:

So while we were out and about, we stepped into this store that had furniture, dishware, glasses to drink out of, chairs, beds, showers.. everything very turkish, and then this decoration or a scarecrow! It was soo out of place and I suddenly felt for a moment we were in the States... It's not like they celebrate halloween here, or christmas... but a scarecrow seems soooo random. Right?? haha I definitely got a kick out of this.

In that same little market area was this place to get food. The thing is, please just look at the name. "Fast Food"... haha like it isn't obvious that is is a fast food place... then on top of that, they serve hamburgers and Pizza!!! A novelty here! So cool! haha... I just loved that it was clearly an american style place to eat and then they just called it fast food. Genius!

After I laughed at this, Ayse and I went to the restroom and as we were walking in there was a separate room with the lights out and I barely caught a glimpse of this amazing beauty! Please Look at how small this is! hahaha Its like a mini of a mini...if that makes sense. We for some reason thought this was soo funny, we almost peed our pants on our way to the restroom! haha

In case you didn't quite get the perspective of is smallness... Everything in the bathroom is of normal size, except that little toilet. haha