beep beep, back the truck up.. to last weekend!

I just realized I forgot to post about last weekend. Whoops.

I got Saturday off because we had plans to go hiking to two of the hidden lakes on Uludağ, but our plan unfortunately didn't coincide with Mother Nature's; it was rainy and cloudy so it would have been miserable and hard to see the way. We decided instead to have a little bbq together later in the afternoon. At about 3pm I went to the latinos for lots of yummy food. Then we watched this relatively new and very popular Turkish comedy called Gora. After that Lee and I split as we were more keen to watch the Turkey/Denmark football match instead of more movies.

On Sunday, those who were not deterred from Saturday morning's nasty weather (the afternoon and rest of the day turned out to be quite nice), decided to go to Cumalıkızık for brunch. The small, historic Ottoman village is just that, a village. No disco's or crazy tourist traps, just a village where you can enjoy some gözleme at its best with a cup of tea on some cushions. Take a stroll around the narrow, winding, totally illogical streets (as their main and only purpose is to be a way from house to house) and digest, pick up some preserves or trinkets from one of the villagers on the side of the road, and head back home after a relaxing day. A great way to spend some time out of Bursa.

Once back in town the group branched-some people wanted to shop, others to go watch a movie at the Latinos, and Lee and I decided to go to the cinema. When we were riding the metro, though, we were busy talking and missed our stop! Thankfully only by one stop so we just walked instead of hopping on another metro, because it's not so far. It's funny, though, because that was the second time it happened to me that day. Earlier that morning when I was taking the metro to meet everyone, I did the same thing, missed my stop by one stop. D'oh! Anyway, we went to Carrefour, a big shopping mall place, to check out the movie situation and all the movies started around 4.30 or 5, and it was only about 3. Isn't that always the way? Sheesh. We walked around a bit and sat on bench to try and figure out what we should do. We ended up playing pool in the mall until movie time, because there is a bowling/billiard area. I wiped the floor with the poor Lee man. Just kidding. I lost every single game. Not that he's that good (haha), I just really suck super deeee duperly.

We went and saw Fantastic Four, which was alright. You know, it's your classic what you'd expect to be comic book entertainment. If you think you'd like it, you probably will, if not, don't go and expect to be wowed.