We went on the road to play the #1 seeded team in our conference this weekend...and got smoked. It was bad, we lost by maybe 20 or 22 points. I can't even blame this game on the refs, we just played terribly. I had 18 points and 11 rebounds, one other person had 10 points and nobody else more than 6. With the loss we are now 3 games behind the top team...with 7 to play. Hopefully we can turn it around and still get good position for the playoffs.
On the plus side, did get to see another Turkish city. The city we were in is called Edirne. It is one of the westernmost cities in Turkey. It's very close to the borders with Bulgaria and Greece. For the most part Edirne wasn't that interesting. But it did have one major historical sight, Selimiye Mosque, that was pretty cool.
Basically it's a giant mosque built in 1575. It was pretty cool, we got to check it out late at night just before it closed. It was my first experience inside a mosque, it was very impressive inside. Much more interesting than the historical and cultural value of this mosque is the fact that when they built the mosque they, for some reason, had nothing to use for grout. However that did not deter the Turks, they had a solution for their problem: egg whites. All the grout for this really, really big mosque are egg whites. Crazy!
I would post more pictures but blogspot (the website I'm using) is terrible for adding photos, they mess up the text and it's just a pain in the butt. So that's all for now.
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