The Cruise, The Grand Bazaar & The rain

We were meant to do a cruise plus the grand bazaar today. We slept in today after our late night partying at bars. We managed to get to the port to do the boat cruise at 1pm. We caught the last ferry only to discover that we caught the wrong boat. We some how managed to jump on the wrong ferry even though it looked like it was an ordinary ferry and not a cruise. I was wondering why there wasn’t any tourist around or why there wasn’t a tour guide to talk it through. The minute the ferry arrive the people practically dived on the ferry without the ferry pulling to the side. It was like they were escaping from a fire. I’ve never seen so many lunatic throw themselves onto a ferry like that before.

Once we were on the ferry and the ferry was pulling away we heard a guy yelling from the other side ferry cruise of Istanbul leaving in 5. We looked at each other and knew we were heading somewhere we didn’t know. We got stuck on this ferry for 2.5 hours and ended up getting off at Anadolu Kavagsi. Don’t ask me where this is because I still don’t know. It was a long ferry trip and thank god for my motion sickness tablets that got me threw this event.
The next ferry back was like 1.5 hours later. So we got off in this small island looking town. It took us 7 minutes to walk around the whole island. The island, which isn’t really an island. I don’t know what it is only had shops, restaurants and a mosque. The population seemed quite small except for the fact there was 500 cats running around looking for their next meal. We decided to sit at a cay bachesi i.e. teahouse. We ordered a salad and drinks. We paid $9 for the salad, which no one touch.

Tugcen caused another scene when she decided to buy ice cream. She wanted to get ice cream inside a waffle. She told the guy she wanted 2 scoops only. The guy told her that she had to get 4 scoops in her ice cream. So she insisted on 2 scoops so the guy gave up and told her that he should be charging her for 4 scoops because they aren’t making a profit by selling 2 scoops. So Tugcen decided to pay for 3 scoops instead of 2 scoops even though she got 2 scoops claiming that was her tip to him. Like what the ?

Nazli decided she wanted simit so we spent the next 10 minutes walking around this place asking every tom, dick and Turk where we can get simit. Finally we found a bakery and she got her simit. We were out of there quick smart. Somewhere in between she got a banana to dip into Tugcens Ice cream.

After all the food fuss we lined up for the ferry to ensure we wouldn’t miss it. We got trampled on trying to get on, as everyone wanted to get off this place. After another 2.5 hours we arrived back in town to rush to the hotel for a nap. The plan was to nap and then head to the grand bazaar.

We woke up to have a fight about who wants to go to the grand bazaar. Tantrums were thrown, words were exchanged, things were thrown but we were all up and out of the room. We walked out of the hotel to learn that the grand bazaar had shut already. Apparently it shuts early on Friday nights. It was back to the hotel for us.

At midnight Tugcen decided she needed presents for her friends back at home. So poor bellboy had to rush across the street and get one of the shops to reopen for her to shop. Finally we threw her inside the store and she brought her junk with much annoying comments.

We spent the rest of the night on the terrace talking and laughing as rain hit. Electricity was gone. We had to open up an umbrella and get candles happening. The hotel guys organised us breakfast at 4:45am under the rain. I think we managed to see the sunrise before heading into our rooms.