More Balloons and Back to Istanbul

The most exciting surprise for today is that our checkout time from our hotel is 10am, and our shuttle to the airport arrives around 4pm. Six hours of bright, cloudless, hot, summer weather to endure.

In hindsight, we should have rented one of the rooms for an extra day, and we could have kept our luggage there, and enjoyed the AC and such. Maybe next time.

I went up to get breakfast and found a ton of hot air balloons decorating the sky this morning. I had forgotten that Sunday was the "fallback day" in case weather prevented a Saturday launch.