Surprise...NOT!!!

Today was supposed to one of a couple of surprises I had planned for our trip. Last summer while in Italy we attended Mamma Agata's cooking class and it was the highlight of our trip. This trip I booked us into Eveline's Cooking Alaturka and I had planned on surprising Jess with the class today. Well, Jess was apparently "reading the recycling" before we left home and found an email from the cooking school.....so no surprise...oh well, we are still excited about the class. (I do have a surprise planned for Budapest that he doesn't know about) As you can tell from previous posts I'm a bit of a fussy eater and I am hoping that by having my hand in the creation of some Turkish dishes I will feel more comfortable with the food here.

This morning started the usual way...up at 5am and then off for a walk around the city. We wanted to also retake our photo in front of the Blue Mosque as we thought our faces looked too dark and we had finally figured out the flash on our camera.

The good news is the photo is better.
The bad news is Jess tripped over the 1 ft high fence separating the grass from the path and went ass-over-teakettle onto the stone path. His hands and knees are a little worse for wear but thankfully there was not a soul around to witness the event. Unfortunately, this injury puts him at severe risk of picking up an infection at the Turkish Bath. I am a trained professional and know this to be a fact.

We still managed to go on a nice long walk and get some good photos.So we are off to our 4 hour cooking class and have booked tickets to see Whirling Dervishes this evening. Will let you know things go later.

This is what Jess is doing while I write this mornings blog entry: