So, we are here, finally! Arrived very late last night / early this morning at Irini’s house (Christos’ sister) after a LOOONG trip and some fun at the border. We will soon be venturing out to explore the city, which according to all reports is one of the most beautiful in the world. We’ll take pictures!

Oh yeah, an added surprise. I thought we were only going to the western side of Istanbul which is still on the European continent. But we crossed over into the eastern half; which means in addition to Turkey, we can now say officially we’ve been to Asia. Pretty cool

The interwebs ain’t so great here (this and the last post actually had to be republished b/c the connection died while writting them) so we’ll probably not write again until we are back home… hopefully with lots of photos.

Our destination: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Yeah, as in TURKEY.

Some preparation music, please: http://tinyurl.com/3m9aoh

We’re going with Christos (our koumbaros – best man) – he’s been there before and knows what’s what. Maybe we’ll actually write something about it during our trip and when we return… on this poor excuse for a blog. Otherwise, we’ll at least share photos over on our Picasa accounts (see the sidebar, too lazy to link).

This should be pretty cool so I just wanted to share, but also maybe a few people back home should know where we are in case we end up in a Turkish prison (kidding… I hope).