Tuesday was full of airports and flights. We arrived at the Boise airport around 8:30 am. Our first flight to Minneapolis was on a very small plane, of just 4 seats in a row, and we were on the back row, so we couldn’t decline our seats that were straight up. It was very uncomfortable and cramped, and so loud with the engine noise. Also, we were by the only toilet on the flight, so there was a steady line up of people next to us. It was our shortest leg of the trip fortunately, on 2.5 hours. When we arrived in Minneapolis we immediately boarded our next flight to Amsterdam. That was a much nicer flight with rows of 8 across. That was an 8.5 hour flight, and fairly comfortable. In Amsterdam, we had 3 hours til we could board our next flight. We looked through the shops, read, and ate some yummy dutch pastries. Our last leg of our journey was from Amsterdam to Istanbul, a 3.5 hour flight. I was pretty tired at his point and was able to sleep a good portion of our flight. Once in Istanbul, we had some long lines to pass through customs, got our luggage fairly quickly, and met an agent from our hotel and drove 30 mins to our hotel. All in all, we were 24 hours traveling. The ride to our little fancy hotel was interesting. We passed nice apartments, to really dumpy looking apartments. The traffic was scary, no one bothered with the lines on the road or using blinkers. We passed old city walls built in the 1300’s by the Byzantines and a Roman aqua duct. It was a bustling city of 14 million people. We have a cute little hotel and they are very friendly. We took a 2 hour nap, then had a meeting with our tour group and guide, named Hakan, and had a nice buffet dinner in the hotel.