stories from the sea.

so ı had an adventurous and somewhat hilarious day today...

today we were supposed to go to büyükada, the big island, to hike up to the top of the hill because it's gorgeous..well we got to the iskele (boat dock) and there are 33mph winds today...

so no boats were crossing the bosphorus..
for good reason.. [see pics on facebook and you will understand more fully..]

so we stood around, took some pics and then decided to pile 8 people into a car and go to this polish village in a forest..so we got there successfully and it was beautiful.. and some of us decided to go down this steep incline to climb a tree..
me being one of them..

i made it to the tree and climbed it and then i had to get back up the hill..
the other two can run up the hill but it's muddy and slippery and steep.. and i couldn't get up
so i continued trying and sliding down the hill..and i ended up falling straight forward on my stomach and getting all muddy....and then FINALLY made it up with some help'

a little ways later, we decided to go the road less traveled and ended up coming to trees in the road.. one had fallen all the way over just where if i stepped over it, i could barely get over it..
so a turkish guy with us wanted to sit on it and take a picture.so he, april and i did...and right as the picture was about to get taken, the tree completely uprooted and we fell to the ground.. .
but it was pretty funny..

then we navigated and kept taking turns that made us feel like nobody ever went that way
so that was confusing and full of adventure, and then we ended up finding the way out...

and then we went to this turkish restaurant because there are no polish ones on this polish village hill..and celine dion, kelly clarkson, whitney houston, and any other cheesy music you can imagine played in the background.then we piled back in the car, headed back and dropped people off along the way...

till it was april and i and the couple whose car we were in.. well we were close to the fenerbache park which is right on the water.. so we decided to go so they could show us the park
remember, the waves on the sea are insane....

well we decide to park so we can check out the waves and take pics and whatnot.these waves were insanely big,HUGE!
well, there was this tree with these benches on it with an amazing view of the sea and i say to april "man i wish you could take a picture of me standing over there and waves coming up" and she decides to run over there so i can take her pic and then i go over for her to take mine.. and the waves come higher and higher

and i think to myself "i should really bring my camera over and take a picture of these humongous waves" yea......... not the best idea of the day

i definitely got SOAKED by a monster wave..
i am talking about jeans so wet they are falling off, hoodie soaked through to my shirt which is soaked through to my undershirt........ hair dripping wet. and it's sooooo windy

but i am just glad everyone got to see it because it was HILARIOUS
then we walked back to the car with people stopping to stare

and yea. made it home and took an awesome shower