Well, I was a little off. Yesterday was all travel, the coolest stop we made was a BP with an astonishingly clean bathroom, for a BP. Our bus had some mechanical issues but they got taken care of. We got to the Berk Hotel, settled in, and had a HUGE freaking dinner. The best tomato soup of my life, two salads, beef and potatoes, chocolate pudding with coconut sprinkles, an apple, and THEN cake. It being International Woman's Day, the idea was for the men to cut and serve the women, but Sigrid wanted to cut, so she cut and then the men served. Liz was very amused when I did a mock bow as I presented the cake. The cake, also, was DELICIOUS We also got a gift bag from the local Chamber of Commerce, which was both nice and astoundingly unexpected. The rest of the night was chilling in the room, not counting me trying to find my way around the hotel to find Swaffie's adapter, which was an adventure in itself. The place is fairly maze-like and the numbers don't strictly follow floors. I was up fairly late, woke up a little before 8:30, had a breakfast of bread, meat, cheese, and cereal (om nom nom junk chocolate cereal! First time in a long time), onto the bus.

We went into town, walked a bit, saw a dog threatening a cat and the cat mostly not reacting, though the cat lashed out once and the dog nearly ran. There were lots of dogs here, with collars which is new for us, but even more notably SO MANY CATS. Wow. We saw probably dozens in a short walk in the rain. Also saw an old Greek Orthodox church in need of restoration, but the Greek Orthodox Church doesn't want to let the Turkish Government fix it up, sadly. A bit more of walking through the rain and wet streets, and back onto the bus. Not sure where we're headed next.

Tuesday, March 9th, roughly 11:30-11:40 AM