Last 2 Istanbul Days in Photos

themes for these two days--walking, taking the tram, site-seeing, more cats and children, food and more food, shopping, Turkish jazz, the Sultan's palace, mosaics.

Food:

Hummus at Seafood Restaurant--they picked us at our hotel and brought us back after dinner!!

Calamari and wine

Cindy had sea bass--head is still attached

Ro had sword fish

tuna for me

mid day snack during our walk on Tuesday.  

Tuesday lunch--baked potato stuffed and a cheese/spinach pizza which
was really a quesadilla

fuzzy--egg plant stuffed with meat.  yummy.  Cindy had the
baked potato/zucchini/egg that I pictured in last blog.
The place was a Greek Manny's without the corned beef.
Our cheapest meal so far also--36 Turkish Lira or around 20 dollars for two.  

Cats and dogs

This girl joined for lunch near the Istanbul Modern 

so this this girl--very well behaved and quite cute

Some evil eyes?  at the Palace

Is this the Sultan?  

one of this outfits

the cooking house at the palace--smoke stacks at the top

a mosaic tile at the Sultan's Palace

another one--lots of photos of these

tower across the Bosphorus from the palace

one more cat at the palace

our dinner companion at our last dinner out in Istanbul

closer to the tower on Tuesday

a bit like San Francisco?  a cable car

next to the tower during our walk 

a small school band performing by the tower

the audience

tomorrow we are headed back!!  Here we are at the Sultan's Harem--a large mirror

Tomorrow we are headed back.  Not looking forward to the long plane ride but it will be nice to be back.

Day 3 in Istanbul--photos

Today's themes--walking, various bazaars and shopping, more food, cats and people...and the blue mosque

Woman having lunch near the Turkish Bath

two men also having their lunch there

spice bazaar--mountains of spices, pistachios, baklava, turkish delight

spice bizaar

henna.  12 Turkish Lira are about 8 US $$

in the same shop as the Henna

more nuts and spices

and more

lighting up at the Grand Bazaar

i-phone covers

more of the Grand Bazaar

the ceiling down one of the paths

a cutie at the Blue Mosque

a boy outside the Mosque

mosaic tiles on one of the walls

the dome of the Blue Mosque

some of the windows--this is an active Mosque and closes during prayer

a man where we were eating lunch--I think an Italian

this kitty was playing soccer with the bottle cap

another of the many cats we saw today

yummy--in one of the cafe windows nearby

closeup of the potatoes

the used book bazaar.  most were not in English.  Very close
to the University

Other Ethiopia memories--happy and sad

our most accepted improvements:
CPAP a new way and aluminum foil to help treat hyperbilirubinemia.
No surgical deaths while we were there.  We were given some credit for that, sort of some magic.

Our first CPAP baby with new design

same + chin strap

phototherapy with aluminum on sides to increase surface area exposure

Her mom watched over her baby who had
spontaneous ilial perforation...both will soon be going home

Two sad babies who died.

This premie most likely had a midgut volvulus
Diagnosed as sepsis...died a few hours after this x-ray.  I feel bad
because there was similar distention the day before on an x=ray
and I saw that one.  I should have recognized it.  

This little ex-premie with rickets at 7 months
died of pneumonia and respiratory failure