Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Hello!!
We are now in a new country, Bulgaria. Monday we finished up Instanbul by going to a palace. We saw many interesting things including Moses rod, abrahams watering bowl, several other biblical things. we saw Mohammad beard many clothes etc from the ottoman empire. We also saw jewels emeralds, jade, rubies, and diamonds. We saw an 86 caret diamond with several thousand small diamonds around it! We also went to an aqueduct built in the 300's. We took the 10 oclock train and arrived yesterday at 10:30am. We walked around the old town looking for a place to stay. We were asked by an old lady so we are staying at her house. She lives in a 150 year old house with the bathroom in the basement. She is very nice and it is a great location for us. We walked yesterday to a roman amphitheater. it is one of the worlds best preserved ones. We also saw many other roman ruins throughout Plovdiv. Today we are doing some more sightseeing and then we are going to take an afternoon train three hours to Sophia the next town on our list. We are doing well and missing everybody. I'm taking lots of pictures!! :) so much to see here. Talk soon love you all
Whirling dervish
jessea in front of famous blue mosque in Istanbul
Cari at the palace