We arrived in Turkey after a seven hour flight from Africa.  Our hotel was next to many famous churches and mosques including Haia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. While exploring in Istanbul one day we got poured on.  It was raining so hard, the streets were flooded with huge streams of water and we bought some umbrellas from a street vendor J  finally it stopped raining and we went to dinner.  On the way back, we stopped at ice cream shop where they used a very long stick…