Day 2 - The Tour

The first stop of the day was the Sunken Palace which is basically a palace that has....sunk. We discovered that the palace is actually a shrine for Cherry's toe where she displays her tropheys of kidneys by hanging them from balloons from the ceiling. (Long story)

We walked across the road to the Blue mosque where I had to slip on a long sleeve shirt in this bloody heat and wrap my hair in a scarf. This was my first wrapping! The mosque was gorgeous inside and the roof was absolutely amazing! No wonder so many tourists swarm to this place.

We also joined a tour to go sight see around Istanbul today. The day barely started when the tour guide try to rip us off. Me, obviously NOT turkish, he wanted to charge me $15 whilst charging Moishii $10. Of course we chuck a tantrum and we both only pay $10. We went around the city for awhile and decided to get off to see the Galata Tower. After the horrible uphill climb to get to the damn place, we were going to give up going into the tower as we were going to have to climb up 23954320520525 sets of steps. Luckily, we walked into the lobby to find elevators! w00t! We got to the top of the tower to get a 360degree panoramic view of the city. Absolutely breathtaking! Unfortunely.....the battery on my camera died! Doh! We still managed to get quite a few happy snaps with the 3 cameras between the 2 of us anyway.

After our happy snaps we walked back to the main road to wait for the bus. We notice this woman standing infront of an abandoned building talking to the window. We have no idea WTF she was doing. Praying? Confession? OMG! She was talking to the window of truth! We tried to take a photo of the woman but we were distracted by the sirens on an ambulance tearing down the street only to skid to a stop 15m from us where a woman and a baby was lying on the ground. Our first reaction was to scream "CHERRY!" By then the crazy window talking woman had disappeared.

Oh...moishii made me run for the wrong bus where I almost got ran over thinking we were going to miss our connecting bus! Luckily some random asian woman walked by and gave him a dirty look!