After boring the brains out of our children at Ephesus (it
doesn’t matter how many “One day, you will appreciate this” speeches we give,
it never works) we ventured to the 2nd largest waterpark in the
world. Brady was so excited! We drove along the beach and found glorious
views of the coast. There was a great
kid section in the park and Brady, Juliette, along with one other little girl,
were the only children playing in the water.
It was perfect!
On our ride back to the hotel, I wanted to stop at a carpet store. I had seen one not consumed with tourists and felt like that was the best place to stop. Greg gave me all his money and waited in the car with the kids. Isn’t he wonderful?! I walk up to find several women sitting at looms tying carpet strands. They were creating beautiful work, but I couldn’t find any kind of store and none of the women spoke English. I asked in charades if I could take pictures. Luckily, living in a place where I don't speak the language, I've gotten pretty good at the charades thing! I decided to high tail it out of there when a man walked out of a door and asked if he could help me. I did my best to avoid eye contact and give as simple answers as I could to his many questions. I felt like I had done something wrong, like it was my fault they had an open gate, with a carpet hanging on a rack to showcase their work, women working to entice customers, and then no way to browse around a store. I told him I had to go because people were waiting on me then he followed me to the car. Luckily, Greg ignored him when he came to his window and we zoomed on down the road. I’m not sure what that was about, but next time, I’ll go where the tourists are!
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