The Champs are Here

We left Friday night to a short little 12 hour jaunt down to Antalya with the Stallions for a football tournament. I am still perplexed by a football tournament but we had one. There was about 3-4 inches of snow on the ground when we left and I was looking forward to the warmer weather in the resort town where we were headed. We got on the bus and started to head out of the city. We soon heard that the road through Ankara might be closed because of all the snow. Needless to say that that didn't inspire confidence that we would get there. We ended up driving on frozen roads all night and getting to the beautiful 60 degree Antalya at about 9:30 am. We took a nap, ate and then we played our first game at 1:30. The Stallions started out slow but really cranked it up and won. We played the championship game Sunday at 1:30 and once again the Stallions pulled out a tough "W". The scenery for our games was incredible and the weather was awesome as well. We left about 9 Sunday night and got back to Istanbul about 8:30 Monday morning only to find out that it had been snowing for quite some time. It took a break Sunday but started back Sunday night and it has been snowing ever since. It is supposed to snow through Thursday and I must say it is beautiful. I love seeing all the snow and we have a good bit of it on the ground. Below are pictures from the weekend.
These first two are the snow in Sariyer, an area of Istanbul, and the third is at Koc Univ.

The first one below is the mountains on the way into Antalya and the rest are the mountains that run right up to   the Mediterranean. I couldn't believe the snow covered mountains this far south

All of those below are of the games except for the last two. The next to last one is our trophy for winning the tournament and the next to last one is our defensive coordinator holding the trophy. Notice the backdrop that we played in front of.