Welcome to our home!

Hello everyone, and welcome to our apartment in Istanbul! Kate thought it would be nice to give everyone a tour to get them acquainted with our place, so she told me to do it while she took a nap. So follow me into the living room and I’ll start our tour.
This was the first view we saw when we came into the apartment, and, as I can see from your faces, we were as impressed as you are. We expected some dingy one room apartment with no furniture, (like Jason’s and Judy’s place, minus the swanky furniture.) Instead we got nice chairs, a sophisticated cupboard to hold all our fine china, and, last but not least…

a TV! Its super posh, with only the best in Turkish television. We get 15 fuzzy channels, 1 semi-fuzzy Spanish channel (some things never change) and another semi-fuzzy news channel. That’s about all for the living room, so turn around and look into the kitchen.

This is our kitchen, which is also kinda our dining room, which doubles as our laundry room. We do have a fridge, even though you can’t see it, and that is a gas stove you see. However, there is no oven, so Kate’s hopes of baking baklava have been crushed. We’ve had two successful meals to date, which is a big accomplishment as far as I’m concerned.
That’s about it for the kitchen, so let me just get by and I’ll take you to the …

bathroom. This is where we poop.

We’ll have to be a bit quiet in here, cause Kate is sleeping, as you can see in the bottom left of your picture. As you can see, we used our empty luggage to good effect by making bookcases, which Kate cleverly decorated with her sarong. The fan on the floor I hauled 6000 mıles from Ann Arbor, where it kept our bunny cool, only to unpack it broken. Good. The nice part of our bedroom are the closets, to your left.

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