Saturday, October 17, 2009

Atlanta Turkish Festival

Today we went to a Turkish Festival and it was so fun! We had a good time speaking and listening to Turkish, tasting yummy homemade Turkish food and shopping at a little bakkal! At the bakkal we got a few things like beyaz peynir, kasar (I know, weird), Camlica, yufka, baklava (that came all the way from Istanbul), Krem Santi, nar syrup and a couple of Ulker candy bars. These aren't things we necessarily crave but it was fun to see and buy them! And some just brought back good memories. We also got to eat some ispankli gozleme, tantuni, mercimek kofte (it was so good, but not as good as Sertap's!), sarma dolma and kiymali pide. All were quite good. Made us really miss home. Once we got in the car though we were pretty tired. It's been almost 2 years since we've talked that much Turkish so it was like the first few weeks of living in Istanbul when your brain was fried after going to language class or trying to talking with your neighbors! We will definitely make this a yearly tradition. And they also have an Istanbul Center here where they have language classes and cooking classes. So we plan to go after the baby comes and everything settles down.

I was just going to get the kids picture but Billy and I got dragged into it. Oh well it was fun!

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Billy sporting his Fenerbahce shirt. Lots of people talked to him because he wore it.

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Bailey saying the music was too loud

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2 comments:

rindy said...

hahaha. love the costumes. that's how we dress in istanbul every day!

Kim for the Kings said...

Atlanta? Fun! I somehow missed you all moving there. Greg and I LOVE the Turkish market here in Boston and enjoy stopping by now and then to get our Turkish fixes. :) Glad you have one near now as well!