This is giong to be one massive post

Hey there everyone. Sorry that I have posted anything for a while, we were in Mardin, Turkey and there was no internet, imagine that. Well we flew into Mardin Thursday morning and I Think I have found the smallest airport in the world. It only consisted of one really small building that had one check in counter and one line for security. Well enough about the ridiculously small airport. Once we arrived in the city we dropped off at the police house, which is the place we stayed. Then we made our way to the different sites on the city. So I made my way the street market, what an amazing experience. If you want to kind of get an idea of what it is like just imagine a massive garage sale that had anything that you could ever imagine and then some more, ohh and with lots of mules running around. One of the coolest things that I saw at the market was the amazing view of the city. We got on top of the buildings and we were able to out over all of the buildings and we could see for miles. We could even see the Syrian border just to give you an idea of how far we could see. 

 

While walking around in the market all the people were really nice and would try to speak English to us. Later that night we went to a little place where we were able to sample some wine Mardin wine. The next day went and visited a few places one of them was a university and an old monastery. 

Later that day we got to meet the governor of Mardin which was neat since one of the projects that we could choose was is mansion. Later that night quite a few of us went to this really nice restaurant and had some amazing Turkish food. It consisted of around 8 courses or more, I lost count since they were just bringing out soo much food. The last day in Mardin we went to Darda, which is a city that can be dated back to 5600 BC. Yes that is before Christ was born. Ohh my what a experience. To actually see something at old with so much history was mind blowing. We got to see caves that people lived in and then we saw the city walls that went for over 8km around the old city.

 Then we went into a jail that was used by the Romans and was also used when the Ottoman Empire was around.

 Ohh and another thing was that I got to see the Syrian border whish was really cool. Over all the trip to Mardin was one of the coolest things I have ever seen and I think I will ever see in my life time. And I am pretty sure that I will be the only Leonard that will ever see the things that I have seen. Which in of its self is mind-blowing. Well I guess I better run so I will talk at you all later.