A beautiful waterfall where we skate.
Grandma Jean over the Golden Horn
The Rumeli fortress built by the Turks for the conquest of Istanbul.
Gate 7 of the Grand Bazaar, with 6,000 stores and 6 miles of streets it is the second largest bazaar in the world.
The "Million Stone" marked distances to every part of the empire when our city was the capital of the Roman Empire (4th Century).
Cooling off by the Church in Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29)
Here, buying a car is a cash-only proposition (each bundle is 5,000 Lira).
Spencer getting splashed by the Sea of Marmara
Spencer got his picture on his cake and daddy needed the fire department for his.
A beautiful, foresty park we play in on the European side.
One of our hotels had a series of cascading hot mud pools.
Erica at Pamukkale (cotton castle), one of the 7 natural wonders of the world.
Alexander the Great
Our friends, the Camps, at the Church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13)
A two-storied gym in Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6)
The library at Ephesus
The Church of St. John outside Ephesus
Keegan in the baptistry at the Church of St. John
The theater at Ephesus - this is where Acts 19:23-41
took place.The world's only "archeology pool" is found at Hierapolis (Colossians 4:13)
The end of summer and the first month of fall has been a busy time for us, as can be attested by our lack of blogging for almost 4 months. We went to Ephesus and the other six churches of Revelation with friends from Oklahoma. In August we purchased a car and a great deal of freedom. Bridget started attending a Turkish public school (second grade). In September Spencer turned 1 and Dean turned 39. We just saw Dean's mother and sister off after a visit of 19 and 7 days respectively. We'll put in some pictures to show the highlights of these and our daily lives from this time.
The band parading into Topkapi Palace
An Ottoman military band.
