Büyük Ada Outing

The moment she woke up, she found me sleeping on baddin's bed, and quickly she woke me up. She peeped thru the curtain. She knewexactly what she saw but with great anticipation she had to hear the answer from mymouth.

"Anne, hava nasıl?"
(Anne, how is the weather?)

When i told her that YES, the weather wouldl permit her to go to the expected place, she jumped in joy! But then her face was suddenly clouded with worry.

"Ama Anne, baddin nasıl? iyileşti mı?"
(But Anne, how is baddin? Is he fully recovered?)

She turned to baddin and hugged him.
"baddin merak etme. sen gidemezsa, ben seni unutmam"
(baddin dont worry. if u cannot go, i wont forget u)

I checked baddin's temperature. Though he had not any fever left from last night, he looked tired. The mother instinct in me warned me not to bring him to the place, but he looked soo sad when he heard of the possibility of him not being able to ctag along.

I woke halil up to ask for his opinion. He then called Meşe (who is a doctor) for her opinion. She said, he could come, as long as we gave him tylolhot beforehand.

And yes.. this little girl..my dearest hatice....


was smiling with joy... and this little boy... baddin..

Though he looked sickly, he was satisfied inside because he was allowed to come too...and join the rest of the cousins....

baddin, hatice,keremcan,zeynep,elo
and ekrem n ediz

It all started a few days ago when every single of us recieved a call from Halil's auntie (Anne's youngest sister), Lutfiye Teyze who invited us all for a trip to the büyük ada...totally sponsored by her.

Lutfiye Teyze and her daughter, Pınar

Of course Afife teyze (the elder teyze) also came along. She was the main bargainer of prices :0)

Afife Teyze and Halil

The ada (island) visiting is basically a tradition among us all.Every year we would all go to one of the islands in istanbul. Last year, we went there when my sister yana was here. Halil at that time was doing his military service in izmir. Last year, Afife Teyze was our sponsor.

I remember my first Ada experience. It was an all ladies day. Anne was still alive at that time. Hatice was just a little girl. I didn't even have baddin at that time. We all went to the büyük ada, ate our lunch there and then went for a sit down somewhere at a green place on the island itself. Merih fed İlayda her soup there, while the rest of the ladies chatted in glee...

There is nothing much u can do actually on the island. U basically go there to eat something, perhaps take a horse carriage or probably walk around the island. No cars except for official cars are allowed. It is either u walk, u cycle or u rent a horse carriage.But when u go there together, the fun part is the fact u r all together, spending time together...and the view is simply gorgeous :0)

This time Lutfiye Teyze chose a nice expensive looking seafood restaurant for us to eat. We had...

Fried squid with a special sauce

Fried mussels with a special sauce

Green Salad

Not so green salad

And these live fish (2 of them) which weighed 4.5 kilograms..

and which price made my mouth opened in shock...

The fish then fried to look like this..

I was truly in shock. That 2 fish had cost Teyze around 250 US dollar. And that was not all what we ate... All younger kids had rice with fries and köfte (meatball). I cant imagine the total cost of the food in total... and that was not all. Teyze also paid for all the horse carriages (around 6) and the ice cream etc..etc. The total cost of everything could have gone up to around 1500 YTL that day.

But teyze was right about one thing though... she said in turkish...*if i dont treat u all to this fish, u wont be eating it*...

For that price, naturally we wouldnt of course. It was simply a waste of money in my opinion. But who would dare to argue with teyze?

At the restaurant (u can see Kerim, iclal n İlka at the very end of the table)

On the horse Carriage

İlayda (merih's daughter) and halil

Afife Teyze, Lutfiye Teyze, Merve and Pınar

Halil, Halim,Selim n Safa

Arent these guys handsome?

i managed to marry one of them hehehe

Funda,Simah,Özlem and Mehveş

This is a proper way to eat the turkish ice cream (from mado) as presented by merih.

This is definitely NOT the way to eat ur ice cream!

Nasib baik mak mentua dah meninggal dan pak mentua tak ikut sama hehehe

For the whole outing however, baddin got worse. He started coughing terribly the whole time we were there due to allergic. We bought a medicine for allergic for him, but too much coughing, plus the fever last night had left him drained up. By the time we were heading towards home, he started to get a fever again which lasted thruout that night. It was quite scary really since it went up till 39.3 degree celcius. Halil even skipped from going to work today due to that. Alhamdulillah he seems better today. As i am writing this ..it is 12.40 midnight already. He hasnt got any fever yet. Hopefully, it will continue on the whole night coz we r expecting lady guests tomorrow... and his cousins would be here as well. F Allah is willing, i think he will recover by tomorrow.

It was a nice outing. Thank You Teyze for sponsoring us! And all the kids were actually suprisingly quite well behaved that day.

More photos will be uploaded to my photo blog soon......çok yorgunum şuanda... üykum çokkkkkk var.. iyi geceler herkese..iyi geceler annem..babam..kardeşlerim.. size çok çok özledim..... bir daha ne zaman göreceğiz acaba....

p.s -forgive me if i cant blog hop yet...my energy level n time r quite low at the moment...

Thank You for hopping by...Hope to see u again the next time.