Assos and Pergamon Sept 19th

This morning started really early again with a bus ride across the countryside of Turkey. We arrived to the city of Assos after having to take a sketchy detour in our big bus. The little village on the hill was quant.It was all cobblestone roads and old homes. We walked up the cobblestone road, a mircale I didn't sprain my ankle, up to the top, we saw some turkeys which was a photographical event due to our geographical location (seeing turkeys in Turkey). When we got to the top it was absolutely breathtaking! The wind was chilly, the water on the Aegean Sea was smooth and textured, and the panoramic view was spectacular. The ruins of the city were awesome, old columns and walls. We had a devotional talking about Paul's time spent in Assos. After we were back to the busses. On the bus we were getting up one at a time and introducing ourselves (more for our tour guide Yasmine because we know each other pretty well aready). Dallan Miller went up and pretty much reveiled that the night before he proposed to Kassie (they started dating like two weeks ago) then Bro Judd had them both come up and confirm it. So they got engaged after 3 weeks of knowing each other...foolish. Thats all I will say about that. At lunch we ran into a Mormon tour group of adults and of course there were people who knew people. We then had a short bus ride from lunch to Pergamon Acropolis. Pergamon was very impressive. It was huge! There were leftover columns from the Roman era, a huge amphitheater, the location of "Satan's Thrown" (since been taken by Germans and sits in a museum), Location of a huge library, etc. We had to take the cable gondola up to the top of the mountain which was pretty neat. We then drove to the our Hotel, Ephesus Princess. This hotel was pretty big. There was a big pool and a long staircase down to the ocean. The view from the hotel was breathtaking. We spent the night just hanging out.