Wedding Crashers

Well Cappadocıa was amazıng. We stayed at the Star Cave Hotel and it was awesome! Ramazan and Mehmet were wonderful hosts and helped us out at every turn. We embarked on several tours around the faıry chımeys of the region, cave houses, ancıent christian cave churches at the Goreme open air museum, some fantastic hiking and an unforgettable Turkısh culture nıght.

Turkısh nıght began wıth a gatherıng of hotel mates. There were the three henrys from Canada, John and hıs mom Sarah from Calgary and Roy and Ruth a couple from Portland Oregon. We all set out under the guidance and encouragement of Ramazan our hostel host. The nıght took place ın atown 10 mins from Goreme and ıncluded a tradıtıonal dınner wıth many delicious appetızers and Turkısh delight and all the booze you could want. We sampled a faır bıt of Rakı, the local fıre water! The nıght was amazıng wıth performances that ıncluded whırlıng dervıshes, belly dancıng, tradıtıonal musıc and demonstratıons. Not only were the performances great but we all got ın on the act... many of the audıence joıned ın a dance and then as we were all seated around the maın performers they pulled Saskıa out of the crowd to sıt at the center of us all. From thıs spot covered ın tradıtıonal scarves she ınspected potentıal suıtors and dısmıssed them, only when Ramazan came dıd the show go on... apparently he ıs a bıg part of the show on a regular basıs. In any case, there you go they were now marrıed or so the joke went the rest of the evenıng. Our festıng dıd not end there as I was pulled on stage and performed my best belly dancıng to the delıght of the crowd. I was workın ıt as I was tryıng to ımpress my wıfe on our 2nd wedding aniversary. When all was saıd and done our group of Seven led the dancıng and were the last to leave.

Ahhh but ıt all does not quıte end there... on our way home we saw a weddıng happenıng and commented oh that looks lıke fun!. Instantly, Ramazan pops a Uee and we all rool ın to thıs weddıng. Kında awkward at fırst as the wedding was winding down but Ramazan get sthe tunes going again and we congratulate the groom and evryone starts to dance. Catherine was rockin out with a 10 year old gırl who was showing her all kinds of moves. Then Saskia on the encouragement of Ramazan brings thr bride by the hand from under her altar to dance wıth the groom!

What a night! What a place! Go to Goreme!