mondays not a mosque day

today we attempted to go to the Aya Sofya only to find it closed of Mondays...no mosque today. We are planning a trip out to eastern Turkey maybe to the poet Rumis homeland and out camping along the Tigris or Euphrates river...Either way I will be happy to be out of a city and closer to nature. Its strange to be so close to Iraq and Iran. To know whats going on across the border and the fact that the country I am from has everything to do with it.