I am still recovering from the week in Lori region. The120 e-mails awaiting me are still looming, a week of groong news is massive, seeing my friends, and meeting some distant relatives of mine from France for the first time in decades has kept me busy. The relatives, the Ghazarossians (Marie and Hampo) are just great. They grew up together with my parents in Ethiopia and knew them very well. They are here on a ten day package tour with their daughter Edina who is my age. I had never talked to them about it, but they were already considering getting a place in Armenia and possibly retiring here. They came over after dinner and loved my place, and we had tea as we talked into the night and worked on my family tree a bit. Hampo apparently has a formidable one that he improved a great deal at the very successful Ethiopian-Armenian reunion in LA last summer that they had organized, and which I missed being in Armenia at the time. One day we will have to combine the two trees. If you keep going with them, I think that eventually every Armenian in the world would make it onto there... Well one day perhaps we can do that website ;-)

The weather today looks a lot more promising. Spring has been crazy with snow coming down on parts of Armenia last week. It has been on and off again very cold weather and never-ending rain. Nobody here knows what to make of it all, but we keep telling ourselves it HAS to end any day now... could today be that day?