ahhhh Internet

Hey Kids... sorry if you have been going thru withdrawls without any updates but we were pretty darn busy in Turkey and then had no internet access for a few days... sorry!!!

Turkey was ... very ROMAN... at least for us. We did a big trip that took us to many amazing ancient Roman sites... good times!

Trying very hard to get all these pics up but it is a challenge... but you can now go see the pics from Alexandria.

http://joeandjoy.com/alex/index.html

and I'm gonna work on the Cairo ones... but there are a ton of those and a ton from Turkey... oh man ... plus we are in Croatia tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2nd to last country... very crazy.

Oh and something I will write about briefly is my trip to a soccer game the last night in Istanbul... wow... we had passed the stadium on a walk around town and noticed that it looked like they were getting ready for a game so we asked around and found out that there was one that night at 7. We continued our walk and headed back to the stadium around 6:30... you could feel the energy in the air. It was right out of the news... 12 soccer fans get trampled to death at a soccer game in Brazil... I was with Joy and Kate and they did not feel to comfortable with all the testosterone and I even felt a little unnerved by it. We had decided not to go in and were walking up the hill to a space where you could watch from the road, when I realized I might not get another shot like this so I decided I would go in and go to the top of the stands where there wasn't many folks. It was AMAZING! The crowd was singing the whole time. I unfortunately had to leave with 15 min still left to play because there was thick tension in the air. The home team was down 0-1 and they were clearly the better team, so the crowd was very anxious for a goal. Wish I had some pictures but I decided it would be a bad move to bring my camera in.

ok... more later...

joe