Big changes afoot for me? I have left my job (effective end of month) and am planning a long overdue trip to Australia in a month or two with Zabel to visit my cousins there and explore the vast continent which I have not been to in over a decade. It is a very nice, liveable (as the recent poll results confirm) relaxed place and my cousins are all fantastic. They have been busy reproducing these past few years ;-) and I have a crop of little ones to see. I hope to spend a good deal of time with them. Their Australian accents always surprise me because their Armenian is exactly like mine, then suddenly when we switch to English they have an accent! After that we come back (hopefully having missed much of winter) and see what to do with our lives. I have not been on the beach in the summer for 4 years now and I hope this Australia thing happens so that I can enjoy their beaches a while.

Ararat was breathtaking indeed today... I took a dozen photos of it. From my desk at home I have a perfectly framed view of it in the window.