Monday, January 21, 2008

New Year's Eve





At Amanda's fabulous suggestion, we ventured over "the Med" to Istanbul for New Year's and spent a week exploring the city. We quickly realized that it would take a lot more than a week of exploring to do the city justice. Anyway, we flew in on New Year's Eve and enjoyed a breathtaking ferryboat ride across the Bosphorous River to the Asian side of the city. Here I am in Asia for the first time! We met up with my mom's childhood friend, Angie, who hosted us during our time there. It was the perfect arrival, complete with gorgeous views, great conversation, and Amanda's anxiously awaited doner kebab. We heard that most New Year's celebrations were cancelled due to political unrest, so we just walked down to the water to bring in 2008 with a handful of people who were out. Can you see the glorious fireworks display behind us in the photo by the river that night? Yeah, neither could we.

2 comments:

Hollace said...

Oh, it is so wonderful to see you girls and Angie. What fun! And those dishes...did you buy some? I would have! Great pix. It looks surprisingly cold there.

stan said...

Hey, Lindsay, I haven't heard anything in a while on this blog - I was just wondering how everything is going over there, and what other adventures you've had since January! :)