Happy Father's Day

To all the Dad's out there Happy Father's Day! Mike was treated to breakfast in bed and 2 treasure hunts. We are so lucky to have such a great Dad! We love you.

Breakfast in bed

Sharing his breakfast in bed

Super Dad!

Mike being a seal at a friend's pool. Hilarious!!!

Lucy singing Rhianna with her Grade 1 classmates

Our neighbourhood in Istanbul on Sunday night

Exciting stuff! Go Turkey Go!

Lucy learning how to do a cartwheel

Summer is here!

You know it is summer in our house when the doorstops are on the doors, bubble making supplies are always out and bathing suits and towels are drying on the all the railings.
Yahoo!

Ice cream by the pool. . .

Family!

Weeeee

Weeeee

Libby relaxing

Ninja kick

I can fly!

Lucy and her classmates at the open assembly at school singing Diamond by Rhianna

Libby being a goof with a heart shaped strawberry

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Love him!

Our guests eating dessert. Heather, Oliver and Amory here from Denmark.

Bed time story reading

Nikkie is here visiting. Having a great night out on the town!

Moooooo. . . . .

I went to the famous Nusret Steak House in Etiler on Friday night for a business dinner.  Beef.  And lots of it.  Zero vegetarian options so nothing for Mel, but I suffered through it. . . . .

 

The entrance to the restaurant looks like a butcher shop.

 

 

 

Food was yummy and the service was great.  Definitely a meat restaurant though.  As an appetizer, the waiter suggested the ribeye.  Yes, a ribeye steak for an appetizer.  Two of us shared it, then two other courses of sliced beef came before the main course, which was their house special.  Very tender beef served up in butter basically.  With bread. 

 

 

 

 

Further evidence that this place was carnivore heaven - the bread was just used as something for the middle of the sandwich.  Meat on the outside and bread dipped in melted butter. . . . how can you go wrong?

 

 

I haven't had meat since.

 

 

 

This past week

It's been a really busy week. It seems like it always is. No time to slow down. . but I will because tomorrow is a school holiday and we are planning to spend it at the pool.

Last Thursday I got to play tourist with my Aunt Jyceline and her partner Christopher. We hit up Topkapi palace and then took the ferry back from Eminonu to Arnuvutkoy for a yummy fish dinner.

So happy!

Iznik tiles in the Topkapi Palace

Fancy door

If you look really closely you can see the Galata Tower to the right of the large tree.

Love the sunlight in this picture

Opulence. That's all good up there.

You can see our neighbourhood to the right of the tree on the left.

Old door

Child's footprint in one of the meeting rooms.

I thought these tourists looked liked kids waiting for a bus.

Love!

On Friday I pawned the kids off on friends and our amazing nanny Karen for the Turkish National Team beach training camp in Kilyos. It was a great camp, with great weather and really looking forward to competing in Spain with this amazing group of athletes!

Great form!

Yahoo!

Cooling our beers in the Karadeniz (Black Sea) after a LONG hot day in the sun.

Goofing around

Turkish National Team for ECBU 2013. Spain here we come!

When I got home on Sunday night, tired and full of sand my Aunt had already made a yummy dinner and then the kids and I went to blow bubbles up on the terrace. A great way to top off the weekend.