Sapanca 2

U know what? It was the perfect time to escape istanbul last weekend. The weather report warnings said that last saturday n sunday would be extremely hot... We left istanbul saturday night n on sunday, from where we were sitting, the temperature showed that it was 39 degree celcius!!! And just imagine.. we were uphill!! I cant imagine the heat downhill there or istanbul..everywhere else it must have been over 40!! Yeah yeah i know.. so what? u would say.. after all for those living in Malaysia..that is like almost a normal temperature right?

For the first time ever, we all felt hot while in the Sapanca house..It was the first time the pool water was hot...the heat was totally unbearable. In fact, for sunday n monday for that matter, we all spent hours n hours in the pool...none of us really wanted to go out of the pool unless necessary..i was drowned in the pool of my own sweat while working in the kitchen..Even on saturday night, halil n i swam in the pool...at 12.30 midnight..the heat was unbearable..n the night after that with selim added in our night swimming....I tell u.. it was soooooo relaxing to be able to immerse ourselves in the pool in that kind of temperature.. Alhamdullillah..May Allah bless Arwah Anne for making sure that baba built that pool in the sapanca house garden..Else, we would not have been able to do what we did.. The temperature is almost back to normal today...28 degree celcius the last time i heard (Sapanca house)..

This weekend i think i have become hantu kolam renang.. Normally it was just us n baba n mıstık..This time around, selim n his family..not forgetting kerim... too decided to stay in sapanca for a few days...Where the morning bread buying which normally was halil's task became the rest of the brothers' task..That left me free to have my morning swim alone in the pool as long as i desired.. I was swimming like a maniac!! At times i joined the crowd..n at possible times..alone..i swam swam n swam.. i am no less fatter (banyak gila makan kat sana)..but i can assure it i am definitely fitter..hmmm how can u be fat n fit? *chuckles*.. well at least i feel like it.. the weekend was maximum swimming for me..even when i was XXXXtremely tired..the pool was like magic...water revitalizes my strength..I had energizer batteries in me hehehe..eh teringat lak iklan bateri energizer masa zaman dulu....pink rabbit lawan lari.. ada lagi tak iklan tu yek?

The pool..the best feature this weekend..n another one as well... This one..

Comfort quest air bed...Every year, i would sleep together with the kids on this..2 single bed put side by side

but this year since they sleep like monsters.. n my body is tired of being abused from their sleeping movement on the bed..with the fear that my nose would be terribly flatten than it already is...(.ganas gila sekoq sekoq ni tidoq), last sapanca i had decided to sleep on the floor with the thick blanket underneath me(ala mcm toto la)...safer from these two cute monsters hehehehe but for 2 weeks I woke up with my right leg painful ( an indication that my back bone is not ok)...

And sweet sweet tem this weekend had bought the air bed from Carrefour so that i can sleep more comfortably..And it became like this..
After sleeping on the thick blanket, this air bed is so heavenly. I had never slept this comfortably this year..until now that is...of course it is not as comfortable as a normal bed..n it does make a lot of noise as u move..but this bed is not bad at all especially after u put thick blanket on top of it...Zzzzzzzzzzzz..

I also noticed one thing this week.. Selim, Kerim n Halil..3 brothers.. this Sapanca they really enjoyed themselves.. normally with the presence of Safa n Keremcan, they had no choice but to play with them sports (i.e Football or basketball)..but this time, the only boy was baddin n he was busy fighting with elo most of the time anyway..hatice n zeynep were in a world of their own..only in the pool they demanded a bit of attention..even then they played alone....

There 3 brothers, they just played n played to their hearts' content.. chatted at night till wee hours...just them enjoying themselves..no limit....3 carefree brothers...i had not seen this very often.. it was good to see them like this..I even see a bit of the old cheerful kerim in this sapanca.

basketball in the pool
Selim n Kerim

halil at the net.
That net is actually for collecting leaves or insects in the pool

All in all it was one hot..totally pool sapanca..7 adults n 4 kids.....I had a great time n i hope u all did as well.. Thank u for a wonderful time :0).. Saros için iyi yolculuklar.. biz her zaman gibi..Sapanca da bekliyoruz hehehehe :0)

And the song by bariş manço is dedicated to my tem..this is among his fav songs..

P.s Baddin can swim now but with 98% fear in him..therefore he still insisted on using the arm float...only occasionally we made him swim totally without support..oh boy he screamed worse than hatice!! heheh