Monday, August 4, 2008

scenes of Turkey


Entering Turkey after about 15 hours of driving. (Okay so about 12 of that was the previous day)


Here I am due to popular request. I really don't like posting pictures of myself. It takes all the mystery out and I become ordinary. Ah well, I guess I just have to bow to the reality that I really am just ordinary. At least the scenery isn't. We are at Ephesus, where crowds in biblical times shouted for 2 hours that "Artemus is great.....(she gives us chocolate cake," oops! I guess that's from something else).





Here we are amoung the stones. Amazing to know that this has been a city for at least 2,500 years.
























Beautiful !

The tomb of Celcius









Ancient Troy and not so ancient horse.

5 comments:

Ariel the Thief said...

Why, I'm pretty sure they shouted "chocolate cake".

Nice to see you finally. I had no idea Ephesus is in Turkey today. Reality is the funniest thing. :-)

Looks like you had a great time.

tsduff said...

JULEE! Who is that tall boy in the back - seemingly filled with teenaged angst? It can't be Matthew... no way. Hmmm, all the other kids look not too excited also - what? No appreciation for ancient history? ha ha. Look you are the blog link of the day at Dr. John's .... he has dragons sometimes :)

Nice chatting with you earlier - now I have to go look at your pictures again. love, T

Kelly said...

WOW!!! Awesome shots!!! So glad you arrived home safe and sound and got to see all those wonderful sites! Can't wait to see the next installment of photos!!! Missing you guys! :D Love, Me

dandjschoch said...

Ariel,
I truely believe that reality is a whole lot stranger than fiction, it's not limited to our imagination. :)

Terry,
Yes, they were all hot and wondering when the tour was going to be over. Timmy and Matthew did say that they enjoyed Ephesus more than the other piles of rocks we visited.

Kelly, glad you like the pictures. I love putting them up on the blog, but it takes so long to do it. Did you have a great time with Sally and family? I'm so glad the cousins get to spend time together. I wish my kids (and me of course) could be there too.

Mom said...

So good to see the pictures that we read about in Dave's emails. How thankful we are that the car made it safely all those 2500 miles. Even though the kids don't appreciate it all now, they certainly will one day. They have experienced so much more than most kids their age. We love you all and only wish we could have been with you to see it all.
Love,
Mom