Turkey Tomorrow!

Today was another super day of classes before having another 5 days off.  This is the first time we are going to be docked in the same place for 5 days, and I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to be doing the full time yet.  There are a few things that I definitely want to get to and a few SAS trips lined up so hopefully everything will work out.  Today we are traveling really close to land toward the Bosphorus.  During dinner we passed a huge WWI monument on the left side of the ship and Troy on the right side of the ship.  I was looking at it trying to imagine the movie and all those soldiers making a sneak attack from the sea.

We had pre-port again tonight and this was the first time they were pretty serious about the fact that we are entering our first Muslim country so we all have to start dressing really conservatively.  I’m not sure how fun it will be to wear jeans in the heat, but everyone will be so it will be doable.  It is even supposed to be a little bit cooler that it was in Greece which will be nice.  Well we were told at pre-port that the sunrise over Istanbul is one of the most beautiful sights of our trip so I will be getting up bright and early at 6:00am to watch it then clearly go back to sleep before an exciting first day in Turkey!

P.S. On another note, our ships intranet might not work depending on where we are docked, so if I don’t have any updates for 5 days then that is why.