Phillip and Rebecca Mefford

After days and weeks of sunshine and sweat, the brisk air of autumn is finally starting to blow. This morning, looking out the window with our sons, Rebecca said, “Well, summer has ended. Now it is fall.” Lincoln’s response was exuberant: “Yeah! Now we can go to the store with the dinosaur bones!” It took us a moment to understand—“Oh, the museum!” Isparta has two museums, both of which we endeavored to visit at the beginning of the summer. One is an Ethnography museum hosting traditional hand woven carpets. The other, and older of the two, is an archeological museum. This one was closed for renovation, intended to be reopened in the fall. We feel proud that our little preschooler has so much enthusiasm for a museum, but he may be disappointed when he realizes it doesn’t have dinosaur bones. It does have some really great Roman statues and sarcophagi though. We will eventually get over there, but probably not this week. This is a holiday week—the Sacrifice Hol