Ephesus

So this weekend marked my FIRST visitor to Turkey in all the time I've been here. Yes, I said my FIRST. This is meant to make you feel bad. My international traveling buddy Joanna whom I met at Semester at Sea, lived in Ireland with, live in NYC with and traveled with to Italy, now lives in London (she is a bit of a gypsy soul like yours truly). She got in Friday night and left Monday night. The first night at dinner someone mentioned that we should go to Ephesus which is an ancient city and sometimes on the list of 7 Wonders of the World ( I found out that there is no definitive list. Pretty much anyone can make up a 7 Wonders list. Look it up on Wikipedia).

I've never been one for tours or tourist traps so I wasn't that keen on going but I ended up getting steamrolled by a group of 7 Turks that I had to go. They were UNRELENTING. It's your national treasure-I get it. I know we don't have anything older that 250 years old in America-don't rub it in. However, I am very happy that we went because we had a private tour and the city wasn't crowded at all because it's off season so it was good times had by all. (Except when I had decided that our tour guide was going to be my next vacation boyfriend. Cute, perfect English AND he would be a wealth of information every where we went. Then he told me he had a girlfriend...wah wah wahhhhh.) Here are some of the highlights....