Happy 4th!

Hello!!!  It's July 2nd already...I don't want to rush the summer along, but it seems to be flying by!  Went to the Indians game tonight with the Sedivy's and Brant!  Fireworks after were fantastic...Indians lost...Ali introduced us to Slider!

I've been back from Turkey for a few weeks now...what an amazing trip we had!!  Thank you John & Rose for being such wonderful tour guides and showing us so much!  Turkey is beautiful and the people are so friendly!  And the food was excellent!  Two weeks wasn't quite enough...I'd love to go back!  It's hard to pick pictures out of the 1800 that I took!  But here are just a few!

Istanbul - top picture. Taken from the rooftop terrace at the Hanedan Hotel, with Hagia Sophia in the background. 
Selcuk - bottom picture.  Taken from the rooftop terrace at the Homeros Pension...with the Artemis Temple in the background - one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World!!  You can barely see it back there, but it's there!  The rooftop terraces were wonderful - one of my favorite things about Turkey!  In Istanbul we had happy hour every day on our terrace overlooking the Bosphorous!!

Bodrum - top picture. Our hotel is the tallest building - the Otel Gulet! Bodrum looked very Greek to me - very, very close to the Greek Islands!!

Cappadocia -bottom picture. These are some of the amazing Fairy Chimneys!!

The Library at Ephesus...it was incredible here!!

I got home from Turkey on Thursday, June 10 (Mom & Dad's anniversary!) and went to Chautauqua on Saturday for a night.  Then last weekend to New York City for the weekend with Bill.  We went to visit Carola from Germany - she is living in the Bronx for a year, maybe two and her parents were visiting from Germany!  So, now I am staying home - no traveling for awhile!!!  Except to Vermilion for the 4th!!

Lakewood is becoming the place to be!!!  We have 3 new residents!  Justin moved to an apartment on Clifton near Gladys and Beau & Tracy moved to the downstairs of a house on Westlake!  And Ali moved to a new house on Lakeland!  Who's next???!!!

That's it for now...I am considering going back to the actual newsletters!  Seems that may be the way to go...I'm not sure if the blog is working!!  Let me know!