Istanbul!!

I arrived on Saturday, August 29 in İstanbul Atatürk Airport at 16:45. After wrestling with all of my luggage I finally walked out of the arrivals gate to meet my host brother and host mother, Burak and Yasemin. They both held signs that made me smile. They read "Welcome to Istanbul!" and had the Rotary Youth Exchange Logo and a Turkish flag on them.

We then drove home through the middle of Istanbul and along the Bosphorous with me in the backseat, marveling at everything I saw. At one point we passed a Mercedes-BMW dealer on the right, a cruise ship on the left, a Turkish Coffee/Nargile Cafe, and then a battlement to a Byzantine castle.