In the Approrpiate Places

well of course as always I forgot several tidbits of
information in my las email. For one I forgot about
Susan and I's misadventure at the Topkapi palace,
which after wondering around the wonderful gardens and
treasury we found a small door off to the side,
wondering in behind susan there was an immediate
feeling of mistake, there in the corner was a man in a
turban in a glassed off booth, reading a book into a
microphone, yet there was no sounds in the room,
Susan did a 180 of apprehension, but I pushed her into
the room anyways. The cases in the room were filled
with artifacts of Muhammed, His sword, Dust from his
tomb, a letter of his to a rival, it was certainly an
experience to casually walk into, everyone had a
headscarf, sue made a b-line for the exit I immediatly
removed my hat(!), a classic travel screw-up.
Immediately after I recieved an email from my one and
only Turkish (or Half Turkish) Friend condeming me for
saying that the Turks don't drink I was of course
proved quite wrong as a young man who works here at
the hotel, declared that he drinks and drinks heavily,
"I drink under the table, not on the table, Father,
Uncle no like, you!, you drink only three beer, when I
drink, i drink many beers, my cousin and i 12 each"
Needless to say we have a bar date for saturday, he
thinks he's gonna show me a thing or two (haha). Since
then he has been my in at the hotel, extra bread at
breakfast, extremely lame jokes when i leave
(including the one with the detatchable finger, and
some lame pick-up lines he doesn't seem to know are
pick-up lines)
Finally the most bizarre bit of information that I've
picked up is that the Turkish People have of course
perfected the Toilet-Bidet, simply by adding a small
nozzle on the inside rim of the toilet, which Lonely
Planet I think phrases best as "squirts water in the
appropriate places" No Thank You I think I'll decide
what is an appropriate place for water to be squirted.
Besides this I can think of nothing else at present,
except a few personal notes:
Levi, I tried to change my departure in Iceland, the
receptionist was as cold as ice and told me to go to
hell,
Russia Buddies, My mom and I dined on Blini, Pelmeni,
and Borscht at a nice russian restaurant the other
night, sadly no baltika.
ell