Wednesday, June 3

We are in the region of Cappadocia and checked in to our hotel. The rooms are on the side of the hill and not really cave rooms-well, except for mine (which is carved out of the limestone, in the belly of the rest of the hotel – no widows but I got my own queen sized bed and bathroom. The girls got rooms on the upper floor and have the best views of the valley.

I’m still amazed at how green Turkey is. Here’s a picture or two of the drive out of Ankara…

Our Quiet Time didn’t really become official, but the first hour or so was pretty quiet anyway…

  
The drive to Uçhisar was fairly uneventful. We pulled over once to get some native raisins and hazelnuts at a roadside stand. There was some huge things being moved that was on three different trucks, each taking up both  lanes of the two lanes alloted to our direction.

   
    
Here’s a couple/three pictures of my room …

While eating lunch at the hotel, we are learning about early church history (particularly how communal monasticism started – in Egypt, and right here where we are now – separately from each other, but happening simultaneously with each other.) We also learned how missional movements sprung out of these monastic communities.