Chios!

Moving on to Chios, my last adventure of April 2012! So, after my mom and aunt left, Kara and I more or less just decided to go to Chios one weekend, which was great because a) we had magnificent weather, and b) I got my passport stamped for Greece! Whaddup! And it has a boat on the stamp. Even better!

So the night before we headed over to Çesme (still don't know how to get all of the Turkish alphabet on my keyboard) and stayed in the Papillon Hotel. Don't stay there. It was super sketch and the man at the front desk knocked on our door in the middle of the night for our passports. It was awful and I'm mad I spent money there. Bonus, however: I now know that there is a slim chance I could stay anywhere sketchier, so that's a small comfort.

We took the nine o'clock ferry over to Chios, which was glorious... I love boats. I missed water. I need more friends with boats. 

Fam Jam, April 2012

Man oh man, I haven't written anything on this blog in forever. To be honest, I completely forgot, and that's my bad. I've been trying to pack in as many last minute travel plans, last classes, last everything (!!!) in the last few weeks. I'll give you a run down of my month of April, I guess. Zoinks! It has been forever. So, I guess my next few blog posts will be fairly rushed, seeing as I'm finally at my two-week mark in Turkey! (More on that later.)

Anyways, my wonderful mother and my wonderful aunt came to visit in the beginning of April. I met them in Istanbul and showed them the sites for a few days. We hit all the major sites like Topkapı and the Ayasofya and the Blue Mosque. We actually saw dolphins from the terrace of Topkapı... nice spot, momzo!