Chai-World

Woke up this morning feeling tired but GLAD that it’s FRIDAY!!!!
I couldn’t wait for my day at work to end already so I can be with my baby girl all weekend and have a goooooooooooood time til Monday comes back. So what I worked only two days this week, we can never get enough of holidays.

Why is it a 2 days work week for me?
I was on leave.
And what did I do?
We went to ISTANBUL!!!

Ohhhhhhh yes, we were in Istanbul for 3 ½ days. It’s Fall there and it was a lovely change of weather for the three of us. I’ll post some pictures up soon.
I think we all must go there at least once in our lifetime. Istanbul is beautiful. I love the layout of that city from its architecture to fashion. They have many old, REALLY old buildings around unlike Malaysia (they seem to demolish everything from the pass and build skyliners here). It’s quite affordable there too. However, we didn’t do any major shopping because the Grand Bazaar (Istanbul’s shopping haven) was closed due to Hari Raya Haji. Maya and I were lucky since we had our own personnel guide FOC aka Faliq. We went to the Blue Mosque, AyaSofya (well we took a pic in front of it, the queue was too long to get in :p), Topkapi Palace, Taksim (reminds me of NYC), and Bosphorus Cruise (we went to a place called I-can't-remember-&-I'm-too-lazy-to-find-it-out and we climbed up a hill to a castle overlooking the BLACK SEA!). It was a short stay but it was just nice to fully appreciate the beauty of Istanbul. We might go back to Turkiye and explore other places.

Thanks Allah Almighty for this wonderful vacation!

P.S: Faliq couldn't have enough of Chai (Turkey's tea) in Turkiye