Turkey Day 6.

Today I went to the ruins of Ephesus, and I met Nicole! It was so weird! Okay, so I was on the bus on the way to the ruins, and the person who comes to sit next to me is none other than Nicole! I turned to her and was like, "Do I know you? Oh my gosh, Nicole, I didn't know you were in Turkey!" We started talking and I figured out she came here two days after I did! Sooo... we decided to see the ruins together. Once we got off the bus, we waited in line to get a ticket and it took us 15 minutes to get in. We were both breath-taken. These were the ruins of a Greek city that was later conquered by the Romans and became the largest city in the empire. It was only till we walked right up to it that I realized this was the home of the Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world!!!! There was a really cool museum near it with a lot of different sculptures and carvings in it. We walked around there for a little while until Nicole got bored and we went to check the rest of the city out. There were a lot of half crumbled houses and a lot of different façades and pathways. I liked it al lot, it reminded me of when I went to Pompeii in Italy. The archectecture and the state of th ruins were quite similar. By this time we were getting hungry, so we went to the café near the entrance. I had a sort of lamb casserole and Nicole had Dönner Kebabs. Plural. About three of them. Afterwards we worked off our meals with a walk around the rest of the City and checked out the Library of Celsus. It was an old library that held around 12000 scrolls and served as a monumental tomb for Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, whoever he was. When we finally got back on the bus, I realized this wouldn't have been half as fun without Nicole here, and I was happy we had bumped into eachother. Library of Celsus Site of the Temple of Artemis