Because its so nice, I'm going to try to keep this short so I can go wander around in the sunshine...maybe go have a waffle. :)
K made it home safe and sound from Stockholm (no missed flights), and we spent a wonderful night out Saturday at a nice belgian restaurant and then a jazz club. The restaurant had fantastic traditional belgian food, and the group playing at the club was really good. They were a trio (drums, bass, and tenor/soprano sax) with a guest piano player. The interesting thing was they were all pretty young (like mid 20s), but VERY good. They played their own songs for the set that we saw. I think the sax player was Irish, but I wasn't sure. He had a light accent and spoke only in English, but from the little he spoke, it was hard to tell where he was from.
Yesterday was also a gorgeous day, so we went out and had a huge all you can eat brunch at a swanky little restaurant. It was a little spendy, but the food was absolutely worth it, especially all you can eat! We wandered around afterwards and ended up in the big park next to the royal palace to read. I had a headache so Les Miserable was not exactly keeping my attention. Instead, I people watched, and thoroughly enjoyed watching this dad trying to teach his two little girls in summer dresses how to do cartwheels and headstands. The one must have been about 5-6, the other was probably 2. So cute!
That evening we headed out of the park and decided to go see a movie. We saw There Will Be Blood, which is about this oil tycoon and his very messed up life. We had no idea what it was about, but it was in English and had won a bunch of awards, so we thought we'd give it a try. Not the highlight of the day, we'll just leave it at that. I don't recommend it. Afterwards we headed home and I made twice-baked potatoes for dinner. Yum!
So now I have to start getting into travel mode again. Wednesday we leave for Istanbul! We bought a guide book to help give us an idea of what exactly we are getting ourselves into, since neither of us know much about Turkey and are totally unfamiliar with the language. This will probably be one of the most exotic places I've been...so exciting! I'm hoping it will be warm there. So much to plan though in the meantime. It kind of snuck up on us, and we have a lot of questions for our friend we'll be staying with. Like what should we bring to wear, what are the things we should bring that we may not think to bring? Baklava and Turkish Delight, here I come!
I'm not sure that I'll be able to write any blogs while I'm gone. I'm not planning on bringing my computer, so it will probably just be an update when I get back, as per usual.
Between the spring weather and traveling to far off countries, I'm just giddy!!!
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