this week

ben & i did more celebrating, at home and out with friends & family. here are some of the photos i snapped throughout the week:

we started the week by celebrating with champagne (courtesy of adam & julianne) on the porch:

on tuesday night some close friends organized a dinner at trilye, a fabulous fish restaurant:
this was one of the meze-smoked dried fish. interesting, no?:
on saturday after running errands we stopped in for a visit with adam, julianne & baby kathryn who is sleeping a lot & doing very well... and is very tiny! they are nice enough to let me hold her whenever i visit:

after our visit, we headed out to get ready for a friend's wedding. i spent some time at the salon having my hair styled, ben put on his best suit, and we headed out for a night of generally feeling like fancy people, as turks often do.

faaancinesssss!

it was a beautiful location for a wedding, overlooking the city and we arrived just in time for the sun to set

here's ben & nilay, giving each other a hard time as usual

i was slightly paranoid about walking into the pool... but managed to avoid it
here's the bride making her grand entrance
little kids looking on as gozde & ruhtan sign the wedding contract
and, randomly, i could have sworn this was lynn stephens until she turned around... crazy!

a good week of celebrations all around!