Housewarming Party!

Yesterday we hosted friends, mostly from nearby, but a few intrepid travelers made the long trip to our corner of Istanbul. (When I posted the directions on the invitation, it took eight steps to describe how to get here...) We prepared awards for those who traveled the longest distance:

Explorer Extraordinaire of Istanbul

Here are the Explorers!

We were given a little cactus to remind us of Tucson.

The venerable "Dictionary" game was played. We used two English words and two Turkish words. Here are the most popular definitions, with the correct definition last:

Punnet:

1. A sonnet consisting exclusively of puns

2. A small hill of grass

3. A basket of fruit

Geep:

1. An exclamation uttered by a koala upon discovering its genitals

2. The drop of drool that comes out when you're sleeping

3. A cross between a goat and a sheep

Dandik:

1. We flowered.

2. The state of euphoria exhibited by an upper class gentleman who has lost his top hot and then found it again

3. cheap, cheesy, bad

Tumturaklı

1. Entirely combed through

2. With the drinking of a complete glass of rakı

3. Rhetorical, stilted

We had a great evening, and in the middle of Sunday afternoon, I am just now considering whether it is time to get dressed. Maybe it is a pajama kind of day after all...