I finally got out of Yerevan this weekend. Although I worked on Saturday till 2pm, I went to an LCO kef at the Hovnanian house on Saturday night. There I met the new LCO group which had some old LCO friends in it... Boris, Astrid, and Raffi Niziblian and Lara with their new baby Amasia. Another co-volunteer Bernard also came for todays opening of Saghmossavank which he had worked on with us. Nune Yessayan was there too, which was cool even though she didn't say much. The new group seems like fun and it was great to meet one of them, Vicken, who had bought a one way ticket to Armenia. He has never been here but he decided to just come and live here. We jumped onto the groups bus and headed for Saghmossavank to spend the night with them. It was so nice and so cool, nothing like the oven that Yerevan can be. The reconsecration of Saghmos after its reconstruction by LCO was a big crowd drawer. We ditched the long ceremony early to hang out at the house we were all staying in like sardines. We saw the Catholicos, plus archbishop Barkev of Karabakh and some other big church people at the monastery, and later we saw Raffi Hovhannisian and the Hovnanians were there too at the big lunch we had afterwards, again at Ashtaraki Dzor. I think it was the longest table I had ever sat at in my life, and it only accomodated half of our group. This time I had my digital camera and got some great pictures. So we headed back with Ashot (the lazy logger who never writes anymore, but who worked on Saghmos as well) and relaxed for the rest of the day...

In the remodelling news, which is coming to an end, it looks like me and Lena will tie on our remonds with both of us finishing probably on Tuesday. I can't wait! I bought a really great zili chest cover from vernissage on Saturday morning to turn into a coffee table.