Written by Kelly Silver
A wonderful opening weekend. The show is absolutely amazing! Now we have a much needed day off! It’s been 9 days since we had a day off and we’ve been in the theater for eleven hour days. I was thinking maybe we would just lay in bed watching movies, but they’ve had a lot of sitting around watching Netflix while in the dressing room. They need air. We all had a great sleep. In bed at 11:30pm and slept through till 11:30am.
We decided to take a trip to MiniaTurk. It’s a park with 122 model structures of sights around Istanbul and the rest of Turkey. The girls were expecting them to be a lot smaller than they were. As soon as they saw the park they were so excited. There was a maze which they loved finding their way out of and a playground too. Olivia was so interested in the history of the buildings. There was certainly more than they could absorb, but it really was a good place to see before seeing some of these buildings in actual scale. They also had a simulated helicopter ride which we went on. It was in two segments. The first being Istanbul and the second Turkey. We were the only people in there. Not at all like the Empire State Sky Ride, or Disney, where we would’ve lined up for hours. As we passed different buildings on the ride the girls would say “we just saw that” with excitement. We took a taxi back to the hotel.
Both girls wanted Chinese. I asked the front desk if there was one close. There was one only a few doors away. We had a good meal there and it was super cheap, not that Chinese is expensive anywhere. We had a nice evening in watching The Witches and an early night to sleep.
