It’s the shortest day of the year. At 9:30 the sun isn’t up, thought the sky is lightening. Yesterday, the sun set by 4:15. All day the shadows are long and the light is golden. I’ll be happy to be back south.
Hannah and Cole,
Stanley was with us at the Topkapi Palace yesterday.
It was a BIG place and we only showed a few pictures yesterday. The palace is where the king (called the Sultan) of the Ottoman empire lived. It was a palace from the early 1500s (about 20 years after Columbus discovered America), until 1922 when it was turned into a museum.
There was a LOT to see, and we only saw part of it. There were jewels, swords, and clothes from that whole time period when this was a palace. They even had a suit of armor that one of the Sultans wore!
Maybe your mom remembers some of the mosaic tile buildings we saw in Iran. A lot of the decorations looked like that.
There is a lot of information about this famous palace here.
at 11:10 am, on 9 December 2009, Alexander Roman Kagy entered our family. Weight: about 28 pounds. Length: Mid-thigh on Chris. Shoe size: 28.
YAHOO!!!!
We spent time prepping today again for court. We go on at 9:00am, and if all goes well, should know the result by noon.
Keep your fingers crossed!
Know how the light in the early morning or evening has that wonderful softness? How it comes in at such a low angle and gives a wonderful color to things? It’s like that all day here at this time of year.
If I hold my hands out at arm’s length, the sun doesn’t get much more than two hand-widths above the horizon in the height of the day.
It’s _cold_ but beautiful.
And so I am going to Vietnam this month. The cab’s on the way. Next stop, Hanoi!
It’s 3:00am and we’re 30 minutes away from leaving EK this time. We’ll be back in a few months to wrap things up and bring home our son.