Travelog for: EkaPeli

helloooooo everybodyyyyyyy!!!!!
as the wedding parties here are a MUST to be large and crowded they invite nearly 'everybody'... hehe... and so in this hot summer days we are invited FOUR times!!!!

the first one we had yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woooow, what a luxurious event with about 300 guests.. done by a *wedding planner* of course!!!! and in a large garden!!!!! it's not that easy to decorate such a large place...

for the very first time I heard in tab about the scarved melons as a wedding decoration, seen in internet from far east since years.. and it was sooooooooo beautiful!!!! and not only this.. they made lots of efforts to have an unic event!!!!! wish you had been there!!!!

hellooooooooooo, everybodyyyyyyy!!!!!
on THU we went by car via sarab to ardabil, first some impressions on the road. in ardabil we were invited for the marriage of her younger bros of dear lili_6789!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooooow!!!! it was great, I love wedding parties!!!!!!!!!!! pls have a look!!!!

btw the banknotes had been fakes!!!!!!!!!! 

hi, dear buddies, friends & followers,
sorry for being late to update our trip to sanandaj, the capital of IR kurdistan!!! a great city with lots of traditional houses and modern places as well!!

one day although they had an awfull temperature about 40 degrees, we went downtown for a sightseeing trip and entered first the *kurdish house*, khaneye kurd!!! wow, so beautiful stained glass windows, and they made lots of efforts to show us the family life in olden times!!! how nice!!!!! we had a break as they had so tasty ice-cream!!! and we found fresh pistacchio as well. later we went to see also the sanandaj museum and the main mosque, all nearby! the beautiful paisley we saw at the cross road beside!!

hi, folks, today is the wedding day, the goal of our trip to sanandaj!!!!
we were all very exciting, to get ready in time and to be able to find the wedding-saloon!!!! the kurdish ppl are famous for their great wedding parties!!!! so here we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi, everybody,
this morning when we had been back home from our wedding trip we got some letters and so on from our guests who brought this from DE for us, and what a surprise when ipue-mom opened the enveloppes and I saw ZIZZI_Zebra and ZORRO_Zebra for my very first time!!!!!



and the next surprise in another enveloppe was a gift for POSSY & CROSSY from dear Trenker - they are still on their worldtrip from CN to US.... together with papa_always!! so we had seen the gift earlier than the cute playmo-couple, hehe.......

I got completely surprised when ipue-mom waked me up in the early morning and we took our backpack and went to the meeting point where two jeeps were waiting for us to go for the 3rd highest mountain in IR, the extincted volcano called sabalan, 4.811 m high, near ardabil!!!!

we had been a group of 8... and it was a hard job!!! we went by car to meshkin and started for hiking!! 5 h untill we reached the eastern mountain shelter at 3.500 m. what a crowd!!!!??!?! we hardly found a sleeping place in a new built house, still not ready.. slept very early at 8 PM to get up as early as well at 3 AM and started to climb on the mountain!!!!!!!!!!! we reached it a 10 AM!!!!!!!!!!!! what a feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?! we got so happy although one of our mountaineer buddies couldn't support anymore and went back forward to the shelter at only 4.300 m, after taking pics of a very beautiful sunrising.....

the group of now only 7 mountaineer and 5 traveltoys (lili's sweet little red heart was coming with yashila_81) had a break at the peak, beside the lake, 50 m diameters and 15 m deep, took some photos beside the lake, and later went back to the shelter, arrived at 5 PM, and now they all took the car to get back via meshkin to tabriz, arrived at 9 PM - enormous tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but soooo proud to get successfull!!!!

(c) of the sabalan pics belongs to karfor, ankbod, yashila_81)

hi, dear friends & followers, what are you doing just now???
we get ready for the devils in k-town!!!!!!!!!!!! we are a fan of 1.FC Kaiserslautern, unfortunately at 2nd League...... we got ready to sit in front of the live-ticker at 22.45 Iranian local time - in fact up from NOW!!!.... as we are sooooo excited................ hopefully we'll not make a fool of ourselves..........!!?!?!?!?????????!?!
pls keep your fingers crossed, too!!!! we need everybody!!!!!!!!!

thank you all!!! kiss you all!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT:
juchuuuuuuuu.... heimsieg!!! 1 : 0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi, all my dear friends,
ipue-mom told me, there will be a surprise later the same day......!!?!?!
I'm so excited.... but first we had and have an awfull rain.. ok... we need rain, I know, but it's boring......
we had a good chance, as Possy & Crossy are absent, we got allowed to use their umbrella!!!!!!!
I'm so happy, that Joris stays here with me for some days!!!!!!



now we are waiting for the eve!!!??!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!?!?????! 

UPDATE:
yeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY for ipue's hubby!!!
we had a nice eve with yummy food and much fun and a nice birthday cake alltogether, kept busy to look a lot of photos of the FOUR wedding parties and of course the SABALAN!!!!!!!!!!

hello, everybodyyyyyyyyyy - specially ppl from tabriz!!!!!
huge congrats for your METRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today it was the first public day to use the suburban train in tabriz!!!
line 1 was opened with exactly six stations, and lucky me, the endpoint is nearby at our shahgoli park!!!

I was thrilled when ipue-mom and her hubby decided to join there today and took me with them!!!!
how interesting it had been!!!!!! it was for free, and also untill the end of the month, so ppl can get habitude!!!!!

hi, dear friends & buddies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today there was a funny programme, as ipue's son1 and schwieto invited their students for a touristic trip around their home town!!!! and for sure german speaking, each of us with a bottle of mineral water in their hands, like real german tourists!!!! hehehe.....



the Azerbaijan Tourism Organization during the new year and summer holidays offers busses to have different sightseeing trips. and the meeting point is just nearby to ipue's home, so we met at 4 PM and started with a group of 10!!!

first we entered the seghatoleslam house, a house from olden times, and they offered for the tourists handicraft from different regions of this province! later we went to the ancient citadel ARK, an impressing old building from about 800 years ago in the middle of downtown!

from there we joined the constitution house, the meeting point of a kind of revolution about 100 years ago, with the sculptures of the famous local heroes sattar khan & bagher khan!

the last goal of this trip should be the laleh park mall, but nobody of our group was in the mood for shopping and so on, better we decided for an ice-cream - and so we did!!!! a nice and funny day!!!

hi, all my dear friends allover the world!!!
today we had a kind of Harvest holidays and it was since a long time the great moment to get such a colourfull harvest from our garden. and more than 4 months of hard and professional work once a week brought such a great result!!

here are some pics for you!!! 

hi, all my buddies, friends and followers!!!!!!!!!!!

yesterday we got all the fruits and vegetables from the garden of ipue's hubby
and today we went there to have a look at all the beautiful sunflowers!!

hi, dear friends, buddies, followers!!!!!

soooo great, today ipue-mom brought us to the 6th national handicraft exhibition to the international fairground up on the hill outside of tabriz! she likes a lot to go there, as it has a special flair there!!!!

we saw a lot of interesting things of all kind of iranian handicraft!!!!

hi, dear friends, buddies, followers!!!!!!!!!!!!

today so many things to do... and finally came lots of women and ipue hold their special gathering to strengthen their gray matters - the game board gathering!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have had lots of fun and yummy sweets and fruits and chips........

hi, dear friends & followers!!

have you ever heard from the german artist Philipp Geist??? we got really thrilled when we understood we can be at the same time in tehran when he is celebrating the great project *gate of words*, a light installation at azadi monument, the famous sign of tehran, built in 1968!! pls have a look here:

http://www.teheran.diplo.de/Vertretung/teheran/de/07__presse/Newsletter/Ank_C3_BCndigung__azadi.html
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=249778
http://www.videogeist.de