Beautiful City, Beautiful People

Yesterday was a great day touring a lot of the city. What started out as trying to learn the bus and metro system turned into a scenic touring afternoon. From the pictures, you will see how beautiful parts of the city are. We  visited a local coffee shop, which had great food and good iced coffee, which I have been missing. Going throughout the city, at any point I can stop and look at anyone and  they will be staring back at me. I do not mind this because I have gathered that the people here are inquisitive and curious. It also does not help that I stick out with my fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. I tend to want to people watch and stare as well because these people really are beautiful. This morning Sarah and I tried to make biscuits for a group of people, but we ran into one small problem after we prepared and cut all the doughy biscuits...how to turn the oven on. This Celsius foreign oven was very confusing. We called one of our friends for help, so the crisis was averted. However they did turn out really flat, but still really good for our first time baking in another country! Tonight we had dinner at one of our American friend's home, and it was such a good time talking and relaxing. Sarah and I could not stop laughing at how cute, funny and adorable their children were. Any little thing set us off into a laughing fit partly because they really were cute and funny but also because jet lag is still lingering. Slap happy is what I would term that. Here are some pictures of my experience so far:

 

The Coffee Shop

Beautiful buildings and structures

The Flame Towers from a boat ride we took