Practice Cancelled?

Practice was cancelled Thursday. I did not know that you could cancel football practice for anything short of severe lightning, but it happened. Most of the players are in college and they had finals this past week, plus there was still a bunch of snow on the ground and our coach is out of town so practice was cancelled. That was definitely a bummer because I really wanted to meet more of the guys and we need to practice but it lead to some positives. We have made a local friend who takes us to and from practice. He is my age and is really an awesome guy. We called him Thursday night since practice was cancelled and he took us to try some traditional Turkish food. We went to several different restaurants and tried a little bit of a bunch of things. It was all incredible! He told us that you never see a Turkish guy with abs because the food is not particularly healthy. At least I know I will fit in with the whole lack of abs. I guess I need to start taking pictures of my food. I really want to try to cook some of this for my family when I get back to the states because it is so delicious. I tried legitimate baklava for the first time and have fallen in love. Luckily I cannot afford to it too often so I will be indulging in other non-healthy, cheap, delicious snacks that can be found basically everywhere. On a separate note, I think I am having weight room withdrawals. I have only worked out like 4 times in the two weeks since I have been here and I feel lazy. I think it will get better after this week. Our coaches get back today and we will start practicing with coaches here Sunday. We will be much busier and not jut lazing around with nothing to do. Below are some random snow pictures from this past Tuesday that I thought were pretty. The top ones are random throughout the city. The bottom two are from a huge open-air mall here. I thought it was cool that that mall was open when it was snowing.