Turkey Blog Post #1

So after a three hour bus ride to Chicago, six hours at the Hyatt Rosement near O'Hare, a two hour flight to JFK in New York, a nine hour layover in Terminal 2 at JFK, a 10-hour flight to Turkey, we are finally here. Everybody made the flight, which probably wouldn't have happened if not for a three hour maintenance delay.

We just finished our first company visit with Kimberly Clark (they actually came to us). I will write more about it later, but it was fun. To whet the appetite, it had to do with cartoon pop star Kita and the Turkish version of Justin Timberlake. We are heading out to a kabob restaurant tonight--side note, didn't realize there were restaurants that specialized in kabobs, but as they say, when in Istanbul---and then to bed.

Jet lag is taking its affect on everybody. The 25 of us went through 60 cups of tea during the applied learning. Remember when you were a little kid and you went to the waterpark all day. When you got home that night and laid down, you felt like you were still on the rides. As I type, I can still feel the turbulence, it could be the tea or possibly the chocolate chip macaroons I ate, but I think it is the turbulence.

Tomorrow brings a boat tour of the Bosphorus River and sightseeing, which should mean pictures and crazy Turkish stories for you. Have a great evening, morning, afternoon, whatever time it is where you are.

Cheers!