Capturing Cappadocia: Picnic

For Spring Break, we went back to our old favorite, Cappadocia. Much of the staff travels out of the country, to Europe and beyond. It's important to us to get to come "home" each summer, so we try to keep our during-the-school-year excursions fairly simple and easier on our budget. Though it is near to us and we've done it many times before, it makes a great getaway for us with kids.

On our first day, Big Ben had a sore throat. It quickly morphed into the kind of sore throat where you can't even swallow. After breakfast, CC drove me to the next town over, where I knew where a pharmacy was, and I bought him an antibiotic. (Don't judge!) We had decided previously on 3 big events while we were there....mountain bike riding, horseback riding, and hiking. Since the two little Turks are not quite ready for their dad's kind of mountain biking, we decided to let that be the first event.

I stayed back with the little ones while they biked. We did get out in the sun a little and had a good time together. They played at the little park, while I enjoyed some Bible reading.

Then we ventured on and explored a little....

 ...and had a picnic! (Someone was feeling well enough to eat by then.)

It was simple and fun. And we got some amazing biking stories and videos when the others got back!