Saturday night fever... sorry okuma bayrami

A 2 hours show... What a program for Paul's class:
English, Turkish poetry, German, Dancing & Music.
2 costumes (custom made), a new pair of shoes and hours and hours of practice...

But at the end, Paul had a lot of fun, seemed to enjoy it, and got a trophee.

Paul has the groove, hasn't he?

This is the singing part

The music session...

The "STOP"  moment (FREEEEZZZZZE)

We do not have any picture of the best moment of the show: The cha cha cha. The photographer had to leave earlier. We're expecting some pictures from others mothers. A future post?

Bath time & others pleasures

First trail in family: Koprulu Kanyon

Spring is back and temperatures are climbing...
 

So we went for a little walk, unfortunately we could not call it hike, as with 4 kids, it's getting difficult to be ambitious.

The place is wonderful, a bit far but look at the color of this water...

We went there with Guillaume and his daughter Lucie

We meet some typical local animals: goats.

At lunch time, we all had fun, playing together and enjoying the flowers.

It's spring time !!!

We end up inside the canyon, but we had to make a U-turn as it was getting too difficult for the kids...

We're not ready for the Olympics.

Around the market

The activity at the market is not only at the shops...

It's also around.
As the market is a living place, where you can find some specificity of Turkey. The first one is the cay (tea)> Cay is the first Turkish word you learn... You drink it all day long.

So you can have this served even at the market.

Then to go with the tea, you have the simit. Typical Turkish pastry. You can eat it either sade (natural) or with cheese (kind of Philadelphia cheese, the French version: La vache qui rit).

Dry products & Herbs

Do you know what it is?

farmers' market

We will try to present you from time to time how our life did change (in good or bad) since we moved to Turkey...
As we're French, the first topic has to be about food...

We rediscovered the joy of the farmer's market.
In Turkey, people do eat a lot of vegetables especially a sstarters (around 250 kg/year/person, 3 times more than Americans).

Antalya is in the heart of the vegetable production and the farmer's market is wonderful. Vegetables and fruits are very fresh. It's always a pleasure to wander around and pick our fruits/vegetables for the week.

For example, now, we only drink orange juice freshly squeezed every morning...

We also enjoy some traditionnal food. Cheese section here.

And borek there (kind of a very thin tortilla, pate filo). Very traditional and very good.
We just made some yesterday with ground beef, patatos and eggs.

Louis, 1 month

We're sure you want to see Baby Louis growing... Not many pics as he was sick (he had a flu) but now he's doing much better.

We enjoyed our first walk outside, everybody looked at us with our 4 kids now!!! and people wondered if they were all ours... Yes yes!!!

Louis is a nice baby, even if he requests to be carried almost at all time. But nights are already good, which makes a big difference.

Baptiste enjoys being a big brother...

 

Louis is peaceful but...

he's also that... He knows how to get attention....