Happy Holidays!

Sunset from Mardin near the Syrian border-looking towards Syria, dry and arid!

First off- Happy Holidays! 2007

Man a year has past!!! I can't believe it! So a toast to all of us! For Shane and I it will be a nice glass of cold sauvignon blanc (s.eastern australian of course!) Helio and Aurore, we can toast you with a cold glass of mimosa! Good luck to all of us in our academic (and social)endeavors! I've been lucky enough to travel around eastern Turkey with Jerome..(another open ended situation, which will have to wait and see what happens) But it was an amazing experience (traveling)(smiling) and I'm so glad I did it. Though I do wish I had kept notes, its funny I thought about it but never got around to doing it! So here's a few pictures there are too many to post here, will post more on my blog later..

5000 year old ruins in Harran, still very near Syria, Helio most of the places I've been date back to Biblical times, some of the churches are listed in the Bible!




Just to give you a scale people carved houses into these rocks-a valley in Cappadocia,(central turkey)we climbed into a few of them. It was amazing(sorry shane, lack of better word,at least its not 'nice') esp.when you remember we are talking about the time of Christ.






These buildings went on for miles it was a whole civilization, we truly felt like explorers since there was no one around.

Me in the middle of nowhere, these are lava formations! The people who lived here just literally scooped out their houses it was very soft and crumbly..wished I studied geology..

Another ruin, and lava formations-I can't help it love sunsets...

Helio-any idea of what the script is?? These were early churches, did we see that replica of Christ in Scandinavia?

Okay have to go for now, busy with my mother trying to get her settled in, as well as looking into doing a phd, which is looking a bit impossible but haven't given up hope. Might have to settle into somewhere in New Mexico, which sounds interesting but you never know what the day might bring..as the old saying goes. So for those of you who thought I was lost (smiling) I'm back...Hejdo!