Turkey Day 45

We've just come back from a week in Turkey with Gin's family, Tina, David, Adam, Mary, Josie and Kim. It was fantastic, we had clear blue skies every day and our apartment was right by the beach.

Each night we ate by the sea while the kids played on the sand.The kids loved being with their cousins and making lots of new friends on the beach.

Apart from the usual tourist stuff we lazed around swimming, snorkeling and eating Turkish Delight. We went on a bus trip to an authentic Turkish house where they had carefully hidden the washing machine. We were woken by the muezzin every morning calling from the mosque.

Gin and Tina went for a Turkish massage - complete with skin peeling, foam massage, sauna and other pampering. She said it was fantastic but it took three days for her skin to recover!
Zac learnt to snorkel and was really excited after seeing an octopus. The octopus squirted ink at Ginnie - obviously she is too scary! Max tried snorkeling but put both his mask and snorkel on upside down so he didn't get far.The exchange rate is about 1 million Turkish Lira to the NZ Dollar so we spent a lot of time counting the zeros on our banknotes and Zac seemed to be much more willing to do menial tasks for us when paid in millions rather than dollars. While waiting at a bar for us Tina and David saw lots of banknotes blowing past so they diligently collected them and waited to see if the owner arrived. Nobody appeared so they counted their windfall, it was about 2 dollars.

We had a ride on some inflatable doughnuts towed very fast behind a speedboat, Zac was so light he bounced a lot and closed his eyes most of the time. Martin tried wakeboarding, to waterskiing what snowboarding is to skiing. Gin bought a fake gucci bag and watch and Zac and Gin got fake tattoos.