Greetings from Adana

The "Fun Girls" and our guide "Al"

The delicious bread we had for our last lunch together in Turkey

Mosaic from the Antioch Museum, Orpheus and the Beasts

Hello,

Connie and I said goodbye to the group a few moments ago. We are in our hotel room in Adana Turkey. The group is now at the airport and they will fly out at 7:30pm tonight (about 2 hours from now). They will fly to Istanbul and spend the night. Tomorrow morning they will be transfered to the airport and fly back to New York. From there most will fly back to Miami while others will make there way to other cities.

Overall it was a great trip with a great group of people. Connie and I will miss them.

We had a wonderful guide, driver and driver's helper.

Tomorrow Connie and I will drive east to explore other parts of Turkey.

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Today we slept in. We did not leave the hotel until 9AM. Then we walked to the wonderful museum at Antioch. The main feature of the museum are many wonderful Roman mosaics.

We spent about 1 1/2 hours at the museum and then we drove to St. Peter's cave or church. It is built into the slope of the hills overlooking the city of Antioch. Many of the group climbed up the side of the hill to see the large carving of Antiochus I looking over the city.

We then went down to the church and saw the remains of mosaic floors and an alter. To the left side was a passageway that was used to escape the area when needed.

We stopped for a nice lunch and then drove to Adana. They we left the group in the able hands of our guide and Dr. Gary Poe.