My Phobia

Yesterday, we visited Agia Sofia and the Blue Mosque. We went to a park and looked at a fountain while mom read us the day's tour we would take. First we went into Agia Sofia. The place used to be a Christian church, and they made it into a mosque because nobody came. In a mosque you're not allowed to paint people so they covered up all the paintings that had people in them, instead of destroying them. It shows a level of respect, because they're not valuable to the Muslims, but the Muslims knew they were valuable to someone else. Isn't that just, amazing? And now that it's a museum, they've uncovered the mosaics/paintings the Muslims preserved so the mosaics' value was applied. Anyway, thats just the first room we went into, heh. The next room was long, with about 5 doors along the right wall. The middle door was the biggest, and was reserved for only the sultan (emperor) to go through. We went through that one. Wow, they say that inside there you could easily fit the Notre Dame in France, or the Statue of Liberty in Egypt (just kidding, New York) if it wasn't holding it's torch. Have i mentioned that i hate high ceilings? I hate high ceilings. There was this one airport back home, and it had an uber high ceiling, with things hanging down from it. (shudders) ughuhuh! And a church in York with a super uber high ceiling, that was gross too. And now, Agia Sofia, higher than Notre Dame, (I've seen pictures) and all the other scaredoms. Yikes. I'm not deathly scared of high ceilings, but i am bothered by it enough to remember which ones bugged me.