Izmir

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Hakan and Özden (his grandmother) at the end of the evening.

Me, Hakan, Nur and Tuncay (Hakan's parents who live in Izmir)

Nur and I getting ready - well - waiting for Tuncay

Hakan and his anne. Hakan went to a men's kuaför, he looked so nice!

Nur and I went to her favorite salon in Izmir to get our hair done for the engagement party of her sister's daughter this evening. It was fun - I could barely talk to my stylist but he laughed at me a lot and spent a really long time curling my hair.

This weekend I drove down to Izmir with Hakan and his Dad, and two people from his work. We left at 6 pm and after some classically hectic and nerve-wracking 90 mph driving we arrived at 2 am in Izmir. The next day, we got up and had a delicious classic Turkish breakfast, did some classic high-end Turkish shopping, went to Starbucks (ha!), went to the salon, got ready for the party and were there by 7. We left around 1 or 1:30 after several courses and lots and lots of dancing and talking (in mostly Turkish - ack hard work!).