A Trip to Turkey

Bwah. THis is my first blog post in 2 months. Talk about slacking! Anyways here's some videos!

The first batch is from Istanbul.

First Night in Istanbul

A Cool Cafe in Istanbul.

The Aya Sofya. It was SO amazing!

This place that we went to had the BEST baklava ever! It was amazing!

The Entrance to the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

Inside the Grand Bazaar.... after the power went out and everyone had to use generators.

We went to Bosnia last year and first heard the call to prayer there, at sunset. I think this is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard.

A beautiful view of the harbor.

The most amazing fish sandwich that I've ever had in MY LIFE!!!! They actually caught the fish about 20 feet from where we ate it!

Jake and I decided to get a haircut in Turkey. Here's Jake getting a Turkish style haircut. It was quite an experience!

Bwah! I have no idea what this was about but it was cool!

The haircutter also used an old style razor! It was pretty cool! It was pretty smooth too!

Then it was my turn for the fire!

This was the final result of an almost 2 hour search for these amazing sweet treats. It was well worth the time that it took. It turns out that they were an old style treat in Turkey, which meant that they were almost impossible to find!

Next up.... Pamukkale

Nothing to really say here. I think the videos speak for themselves. You can really see how beautiful of a place this was. The water was so warm and clear. IT was a truly amazing experience!

Cappadocia.....

This was, by far, the most difficult part of the trip. It all started with a series of troublesome, and expensive bus rides. Each person we asked along the way insisted that finding a bus to our destination would be easy. However, we ended taking many buses out of our way and paying out the nose for said bus rides. It was a nightmare even trying to find a bus that would take us to a place near Cappadocia. However, afterwards the time that we spent there was quite enjoyable. I even got a chance to try doing some Yoga, which was actually pretty amazing!!

This is how our bus trip started out after we were basically stranded by the bus company.

However, things chilled out and started going a lot better.... kinda....

Here were some amazing trees that we found on the side of the road.

Goreme

Goreme again

And finally, on the way out of Cappadocia we saw this mountainside village.

This was our trip to Turkey. Hope you enjoyed the videos!

Roma (The City)

So here we are in Rome. After crazy amounts of negotiation with the employees of AirFrance, we are now ready to get home tomorrow. We got really lucky since we asked the lady and she gave us this one option. Otherwise we'd be leaving Wednesday.... if we were lucky. However, the incompetence of the AirFrance staff has been pretty bad these past couple of days. They gave us horrible options and then would randomly give other people amazing deals where they would get home the next morning. It was unbelievable! We will definately complain to the company. Right now we're just happy to be one step closer to home!

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Create your own visited map of The World

I found this on a girl named Lauren's blog. I thought it was really cool.... so of course I got it myself. I can't wait to add a bunch of countries to it in Hungary. It'll be fun to track where Val and I travel to.

On a second note, Val and I have been working on a couple of projects. We just finished an American Ninja Warrior video for this guy and he said, to celebrate, he was going to take us out for sake! WOOT! Never had sake before but I hope it's not going to be like drinking acid. This project has been taking up a lot of our time so we haven't had a lot of time for much else. Especially when you add it to the hours of time spent on looking at http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/

Speaking of which, we found a picture of this thing that people are calling creepy charlie.

It's on the site on the picture. The caption on it says:

"Creepy charlie is only a little creepy, mostly it's just shy"

lolz. Aaaanyways, I've been drawing and doing cgi but not a lot. I've been a little too preoccupied with other things, like oh I dunno.... moving to another country. Once we move I'll probably blog about adventures and traveling more than cgi. Well, that's all for now.