Tricked!

October 23
Today we got tricked. When we came out of the Aya Sofya (a museum in Istanbul) somebody asked if we wanted to see a bazar where there used to be horse stables. I was interested but Mama and Papa didn't show much interest until he said he could show us how the famous Turkish carpets are made. He said he had a shop where 30 women worked. So we agreed to go with him. We were at the horse stables for about 5 seconds and then he showed us to his carpet shop. While we where talking another guy came. We didn't see the carpet factory he promised only a big sales room. When Mama asked again if we could see the women working he said there were nine women working there, but instead of taking us to them he just tried to sell us carpets. It was then we learned it was a trick because when we asked again he said that "she" not "they" get two days off because "she" not "they" finished a carpet. We think that if we come in two days "she" will be "sick" or something. So we are not going back. Today we also saw the Blue Mosque and 'blue' is the exact right word unless you were thinking 'HUGE!' The pillars

are so big that not even five of me could stretch our arms all the way around.