Today is another beautiful late spring/early summer day. Mt. Ararat starts of crystal clear in the morning, and will get hazy as the air gets dusty and dirty. Hopefully we'll make it out into the countryside to find some monasteries, since the weather will be perfect.

For the first time since starting working on my remodeling job, my remodelers are taking a day off. I certainly never expected them to work on Sundays to begin with, so I had been surprised the last few Sundays to see them working away. So much for stereotypes about post-Soviet work ethics.