Day 9 October 19 - Istanbul- My Birthday!: Photos 21 to 42

For my birthday, JoAnne gave me a beautiful “evil eye” ornament that she had found at the bazaar the night before, a blue glass ball with the eye on it on four sides, enclosed in a silver casing. We woke up with the intention of catching an early tender to the city. But the tender people thought otherwise. They decided to wait until we were full. Then there was a woman who stood on the bow and waited for her husband, or someone in her group anyway. And they let her. We waited and waited. We finally left and got to the city at about 9am, half hour later than we had wanted to actually be at the Blue Mosque.

We made our way to the tram and got off the same place we did yesterday. We paid our money to use the public WC, where JoAnne found an interesting toilet. The weather was nicer and we took some good photos of the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque from the outside before going into the mosque. We spent about a half an hour inside, taking photos of the beautiful blue tiles, stained glass windows and the chandelier. Although it

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