It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Thought I'd share some pics of the kids & a few funny things about our new neighborhood:

(1) A popular star of a Turkish reality show lives just a street or two over from our new place. Though we have yet to see him, he's reportedly always surrounded by a crowd.

(2) There's a car that often drives down the major road in our neighborhood (it's the one our apartment faces)... and it has a horn that plays the theme song from "The Godfather". They honk it far too often, but it still cracks us up.

(3) This new neighborhood is full of people from all around the world, so it's fun to walk around and see the variety of people God has made. In contrast with America, Turkey (like China) is a nation full of mostly one kind of people, so it's unusual to have a place where there are so many different nationalities in one neighborhood.

(4) We live just around the corner from a place that serves one kind of food we LOVED from our old overseas home... loghman! (Click that link to see a large picture.) YUM!

(5) Though it's an older, more working class, neighborhood, it's right by the Sea of Marmara, so it's a great place to live-- fairly cheap housing, right near the water-- very rare in Istanbul!


We're enjoying the new place. Just thought I'd share some fun trivia about it!