on the road

We have spring break.  I haven't had spring break since coming to Turkey - and just like I haven't had a Christmas break since coming here - the international school year is set up separate from the ministry of Education and we have such things as Christmas Break and Spring Break once again.  It's odd, considering that 90% of school population is Turkish, and that most of the country follows the ministry breaks during February.  But it also creates breaks for us where it doesn't involve the entire country on the road, and vacation spots not quite as full.

We intended on leaving at 3am, and left our community by 5:30am.  Hakan had arrived the night before and so we were traveling together for about 30 minutes - then Hakan called us and said that driving that "slow" made me sleepy and he was going to drive fast ahead of us and take a nap somewhere.

We stopped in Afyon, about 3 hours later and had breakfast at McDonald's - we always stop here because it has an indoor play area for the kids to run around and get some pent-up car energy out.  We continued on, stopping one more place for tea  and the day had warmed up enough for us to sit outside and for the kids to play outside.  By the time we got to Kusidasi - the temperature was up to 18 degrees - perfect spring weather.  It was between 4-and 5pm and well set to work cleaning the three months of dust that had collected, shaking out covers and curtains, washing shelves and making up the rooms.

It's always a big job - but with all of us working and juggling the kids - we managed and had our first dinner - however indoors - because the night time had cooled quiet a bit again.