Turkey

The best trip of my entire life was when I went to Turkey with my mother and my uncle (her brother) in July 2008. When my mother, brother, father, and I went to Greece in 2007, we spent one day in Turkey and my mother kind of loved it, so we went back a year later. Anyways, the reason why this trip made me so happy was because there was 1) very little fighting (even though my mother and I got sassy with one another in Istanbul) and 2) I spent my birthday there.

We went to Istanbul, Bursa, Ankara, Cappadocia, Konya, Antalya, Pamukkale, Izmir, Canakkale, and Gallipoli Peninsula.

We stayed in Antalya for my birthday, and here was the view from my room:

During the day, I jumped off a 25-30ft

and yep, we had burger king (sometimes you need to step away from 10 days of lentil soup for lunch)

Sometimes when I get really sad, I look back on these photos and I get super happy and I remember that the world is much larger than I make it out to be.

Here is the entire trip.