Woke up at 6am and had a cheeky extra half-hour snooze time hen got up and jumped in the shower, dressed and met Kirsty and Layla in the restaurant for breakfast. I wanted to make sure I had plenty of substance in my belly before they started filling my mouth with injections.
Straight after breakfast, it was a 20-minute ride to the dental surgery. there was another British couple in the car with us s she was having a wisdom tooth extraction today ready for her crowns fitted next Friday.
We got to the clinic which is above a really posh shopping centre. Very big brands selling hideous clothing you wouldn't want to be seen taking the bins out in, but each to their own.
We then had our checkup and x-rays to make sure nothing had changed. That's where the problems started. Kirsty needed a deep clean before they could start work which would then need 2 days for her gums to settle before they could begin. This obviously meant staying longer and paying £125 for the additional treatment plus the extra night's accommodation. This was really not the news Kirsty wanted to hear after already having a false start the first time she came. After a lot of back and forth and almost calling the whole thing off and settling for having her teeth whitened, we decided she might as well get the deep clean done and that would give us time to look at if it was possible to change flights etc,
Just time for a quick pic on the dental clinic terrace with Layla looking like a Russian celebrity lol.
Kirsty was pretty much in and out for her deep clean and I was a couple of hours having molds done, injections and my back teeth filed down ready for my crowns. Once the mouth is numb it's just uncomfortable for me to try and not keep swallowing. I usually breathe through my mouth so when they are drilling they use water, even though they are sucking it out I feel the need to swallow which moves my tongue about. He wasn't best pleased about this and so he kept making the suction woman ramp up the suction duties. I tried to close my eyes and focus on breathing through my nose but it isn't easy when it doesn't come naturally to you. I never feel like I get enough air in when I breathe through my nose so end up opening my mouth. When that is filling up with water you want to swallow to clear the airway. Eventually, it was done and my temp crowns were put in to cover the exposed pegs.
Back to the hotel and I had a sleep as I felt drained, which Pepsi & Shirley went out for something to eat. Between the two of them, they need to eat every couple of hours lol. Kirsty can eat a full meal but if she has 10 mins sleep it's like she hasn't eaten and has to go again :-)
We met up at 6pm and went for dinner at a place just left and down the street from our hotel. We'd eaten there last time me and Kirsty came. We all opted for the lentil soup to start with that they give you a slice of lemon to squeeze in the soup. Sounds weird but it's really nice and adds a new dimension to the soup. I had chicken steak for the main and Kirsty had the mixed grill but Layla was still full from earlier so didn't have a main. They gave us a small Turkish tea (tased kike a bitter Tetley's) to finish off the meal.
The food wasn't great and I made the mistake of ordering what I thought looked like grape or pomegranate juice in a bottle from the fridge but I took one sip and instead of being sweet it was bitter and salty. Turned out it was some weird fermented carrot juice. Vile!
That is the offending article, just incase you are ever in Turkey and fancy a pomegranate juice THIS is NOT one lol. I should have read the small print but I didn't have my specs and wouldn't have thought for one minute that someone would want to drink some godforsaken fermented black carrot juice in a month of Sundays :-/
It was with all the bottles of fresh orange juice etc so I just presumed it was fruit juice and judging by the colour I thought blackcurrant or pomegranate. My mouth was all ready for a sweet explosion and instead got some salty sea water taste YUK!
After dinner we went back to the hotel and sat in the rooftop bar for a bit then me and Layla called it a night early at about 8pm. We left Kirsty talking to Nicky who has said she will go back to the dentist with her on Friday if she has to stay longer to get her treatment completed. Sadly I can't stay any longer as I have work appointments as well as a helicopter ride booked at the weekend.