Fun in the Sun

We went to the beach on Thursday! We had a lot of fun! The waves were huge and almost always pushed Molly and I under the water!! We had a relaxing time at the beach!

Our Pizza night

Tonight we are making homemade pizza! First, we went to the "Ekmek fırını", which is translated the bread oven!! We bought some dough for 1 lira. Then, we brought it home and went to work!! We rolled it out and had a little fun playing with it as you can see in the pictures!! Then we put the toppings on. Next stop was the oven!! It was a lot of fun!!!

This was one of the finished products.

Molly's jewels

Molly was being very creative yesterday, by making jewelry out of normal household items!! The "earrings" are actually Christmas ornaments and the "boa" is actually a bungee cord!!

My Birthday

My birthday was Wednesday, July 30th! I had a fun day! Molly got me some fake nails from "Claires"! We put them on but they only lasted for about 2 hours. We went to a mall on the European side called "Kanyon Mall". We ate lunch there and then came home. My mom made a fantastic dinner! Then we had some people over to eat my fruit pizza (which was my cake!) It was very good! I had a great 13th birthday!

"Let's go to the beach!"

We had a fun time at the beach on Sunday, and here are a few pics of it!

Our Baptism

Molly and I were baptized on Sunday! Our house church went to the beach and we got baptized in the Black Sea. It was a beautiful day and the right timing. We had an incredible day!!

Fast Camp

Molly went to Fast Camp for a week. It was a day camp and they had a performance at the end. The pictures are of her performance. Fast Camp stands for "Fine Arts Summer Training camp", she had a lot of fun and I got to do a lot of shopping while she was gone! It was a great performance and all of the kids had a great time!!

New Haircuts

We went to go get haircuts on Molly's birthday. Mine is a lot sorter than it used to be, and Molly's is about 2 inches from what she had it last!

Sardis

We stopped at this incredible sight on our way back to Istanbul! It was just amazing, how much they had restored and rebuilt! It was so cool to see the history and story behind this amazing city! It is also one of the churches in Revelation! It was also so cool to see the temple! It was so awesome!!!!

Hierapolis

This was to the left of Pamukkale. It was really cool!! It was a restored amphitheater! There were ruins everywhere which made it really awesome!! Daddy was explaining everything to us. He and I decided to take a little detour to some more ruins but it ended up taking forever, but I still enjoyed it! It was truly amazing!!

The Thermal Pool

Right off to the side of Pamukkale there is a thermal pool. It is basically a hotsprings. Molly and my parents went in it last time they came here. They said it really wasn't that great. There is moss everywhere and you are swimming in really warm water when its 90 degrees outside. It looked but not really my kind of swimming pool!!