High Adventure Travel.

We visited Antakya last week which is known as the Biblical city of Antioch. The picture is of St. Peter's Grotto. This is a cave that people say Paul and Peter preached in! How amazing to see and stand in this place. Gives me a better appreciation for those first believers called Christians...but the others got an even greater appreciation. So, I am afraid of heights, you may refer back to my laundry blog in which i shared that I get nervous hanging my laundry up on the 3rd floor of my house. The others got a little crazy exploring on the bluffs above this cave where a church has been built onto. There are tons of pathways that the first Christians may have made and even used to escape if the need arose. I decided to sit out the rock climbing and come to find out...i missed the adventure of a lifetime! Between you and me, i don't know if i could have been as brave as they were climbing through this mountain and then scaling up a well with no footrests! They had some fun stories to tell me...one in particular in which a frog, Mr. Shelby army crawling I do believe with the frog in tow, and a very small cave involved that I am quite frankly, a little glad I was not a part of (smile)... when they met me back on solid ground, as you can imagine! Maybe I'll work up the courage for next time, but as for this visit, I appreciated the church from the vantage point of the ground!

We had some good Turkish food, doner to be exact, at a place called 'Liver burger'. Yes, you read that right, 'Liver burger'. We had some fun figuring out how to ask in a Turkish accent where 'Liver burger' was. Is it just 'Liver burger' or might it be (Lee-veyr-bear-geyr)...who knows. The doner was good, and had it boasted a little less mayonnaise, it might have as someone had forewarned us...changed our lives. My life is still intact, but it was good. It was a fun day of exploring the Grotto, an artifact filled museum, and the city of Antioch. We saw a Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox church all in one day, which was really interesting. The atmosphere was just a bit different in this city than ours.

But back to home this week, coming up, is the apartment move in day! My roommate comes Thursday, and hopefully I'll get to catch up with some of my Turkish friends now that things are back to routine, whatever that might be for me here! I can always guarantee it's not the same two days in a row...