12/05/2011

Sunday, Oct 30th, 2011-Day 5 of trip

We woke up at 6 am and were excited to start our day in Turkey. We ate breakfast and went back to our cabin to wait till it was time to meet with our excursion. Bill read the ticket wrong. He thought it was at 9:15 when it was really at 8:15. When we discovered the error, we hurriedly ran out of the ship to the buses and tried to find our bus. The tour group guide said it had left. We asked if there was another tour we could go with. There was except it cost another 160.00 dollars. We took it and found that instead of our original 100 people bus tour we missed, we were now with a small mini van of 13 people. That is why it cost more because of the amt of people. More of a private tour with a sack lunch from the ship. So we paid the difference and went with the van. The guide would point out the different sites in Turkey as we drove to Ephesus Where Paul preached the gospel and to the Virgin Mary's home where she lived with John.

Just taking pictures of the architecture in Izmir, Turkey as we drove through the city to Ephesus.

  Turkey was beautiful and very clean, Bill and I were impressed with this country.  This is a picture of the Coliseum .

picture of Izmir, Turkey as we were driving through the City.