After much deliberation we decided not to spend our holidays with family this year. We have some friends that live in Turkey and they have been asking us for many years to come spend the holidays with them, so this year we had Turkey Holidays, in Turkey. We flew over a few days before Thanksgiving. They have their own traditions during this season and it was exciting to be able to spend it there with our friends. Since our friends live out of town we decided to rent a room at a nice hotel in the center of town. We spent Christmas there in front of a huge fireplace in the hotel. It was truly beautiful.