Cyprus

We finally made it to Cyprus and had a short, but good trip.  Walking off of the plane was amazing...it was warm!!!!  There were a lot of places here in Turkey we could have visited (and still want to see), but in the end going somewhere warm won!  We were looking to thaw out and we were successful!!  It was worth the trip.

Our 1st major surprise came when we got to our rental car.  Things were a little backwards...because they drive on the left side!  We had no idea.  Obviously we hadn't done that much research.  We had several Thailand flashbacks and James did just fine driving, but it was still so funny to us.

Girne Castle

We visited the Girne (Kyrenia in English) castle.  Supposedly the castle in the movie Snow White was copied from this one.  It has been a few years since I've seen the movie, so I don't know if that's the case, but that's what we were told.  We had fun exploring all the nooks and crannies of the castle.  I love that it wasn't all roped off.

Except this view from the top of the castle makes me a little nervous because it's not blocked off...I was holding onto both of the girls pretty tightly to make sure no one jumped off.

Amazing view!!

There were some people working on a garden in the middle of the courtyard.  Hannah and Sofia were fascinated and wanted to help pull weeds.  The workers were kind enough to oblige...so they helped pull weeds, a few flowers, and found lots of snail shells.

We took so many photos of the castle and had lots of fun playing in it, but our internet is slow enough....I figured it would take us days to upload any more photos.

We had our Valentine's Dinner at a nice restaurant.  It doesn't really look it in the picture, but it was a pretty classy place.  The food was amazing, but the entire time I was terrified the girls were going to break something.

Turtle Beach

Our favorite part of the trip was the beach.  It was to cold to swim, but we spent several hours just playing in the sand and dipping our toes in the Mediterranean.    

The girls had a blast...at least Sofia did until she fell in the water and got soaked.  After that she stayed a little further up on shore and helped build a giant sand castle.

Hannah truly is our California girl.  She loves the sand and is not afraid to get wet.  She was in heaven.

TJ did a pretty good job manning the sand castle.  He actually didn't eat any sand until he found a rock...then he kept trying to eat the rock...along with all the sand.

We had to attempt a family photo!  And of course our footprints in the sand!!